News Brig posted an article on Jan. 29 that offers a historical look at the decades-long fight to bring live television to deaf audiences. Read more.
Posts published in “Captioning”
Join NCRA’s Captioning Committee for a free webinar Jan. 18, 8:00 p.m. Eastern being offered to members and nonmembers who have the winter captioning blues.…
An article posted Oct. 18 by The Verge reported that AMC has expanded open captioning on some film showings to 240 cinemas in the United…
Access Virginia was recently covered by WAVY news for expanding its efforts to provide open captioning and audio description at live theatrical performances in the…
The GW Hatchet, the official student publication of the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., reported on Sept. 13 that officials said they alerted about…
Sports Video Group reported on Aug. 31 that VITAC will be providing captioning for the Tokyo Paralympic Games, running through Sept. 5 on NBC and…
By Juanita Price On Thursday, April 15, 2021, I received a call from my supervisor. She was giggling. I could tell she was excited about…
On May 24, radio station KHTS in Santa Clarita, Calif., posted an article about what realtime captioning is and when it is useful. Read more.
Supercross may sound like an intense CrossFit workout, but it was just another in a string of exciting captioning jobs for freelancer Phoebe Moorhead, RPR,…
Last month the NCRA Captioning Committee sent a call to action encouraging NCRA members to participate in a letter-writing campaign to the Federal Communications Commission’s…
The NCRA Captioning Committee and NCRA President Christine Phipps, RPR, are issuing this call to action to NCRA members to ask for your participation in…
A podcast posted Jan. 4 by Successful Meetings that discusses specific ways every meeting planner can ensure their virtual or hybrid event is welcoming to…
Captioners: Are you adding new types of jobs during COVID? 28.6% I have less work now. 27.4% I have had more work, but nothing new.…
NCRA would like to thank those members who have graciously volunteered their time to caption events ranging from Town Halls with the president to the…
By Tina Dillon We all know how much it takes for an organization to serve its members. I have sat on the sidelines for much…
The idea for a new live NCRA webinar started when Alan Peacock, FAPR, RDR, CRR, CRC, a freelancer and CART captioner in Mobile, Ala., realized…
By Teresa Russ Since the pandemic, Zoom and StreamText are as popular as peanut butter and jelly. End users to first-time users are asking questions…
By Jackie Hippolyte NCRA member and captioner Stanley Sakai, CRC, helped us delve into the technical aspects of his collaboration with captioner Isaiah Roberts, RPR,…
NCRA has announced that the Caption Masters program is now a prequalified training course for the Certified Realtime Captioner (CRC). For certification candidates who are…
NCRA past President Karen Yates, FAPR, RPR, CRR, CRC, a captioner from Minden, Nev., and Carol Studenmund, FAPR, RDR, CRR, CRC, a captioner from Portland,…