Television station KRQE, Albuquerque, N.M., aired a story on Sept. 17 that features NCRA member Diona Gibson, RPR, an official court reporter for the Bernalillo…
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By Christine Phipps Were you prepared for last year’s emergencies? Hurricanes Harvey and Irma may now be behind us for the most part, California has…
The Council on Approved Student Education (CASE) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 CASE Scholarships. Ashley Stahl, a student at Gateway Community…
What’s the strangest place you’ve had to tap-tap-tap away on your little machine, knowing that people are relying on your speech-to-text output? A bus perhaps?…
The Courier-Gazette reported on April 30 that The Strand Theatre, Rockland, Maine, has installed closed captioning and visual-impairment assist technology in its auditorium to allow…
Hawaii Public Radio reported on March 12 that state legislators are considering two bills that would require larger movie theaters to provide showings with open…
The Oct. 26 Retriever, a publication of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, published an article that stressed the importance of making college websites accessible…
By Kathy Cortopassi The worst fear, believe it or not, was the first time I ever captioned the Business Meeting for the NCRA Annual Convention.…
An Oct. 19 article in the Houston [Texas] Chronicle spotlights Victor Lombrana, a Houston Astros fan who is blind and deaf due to Type 2…
Long nights of practice and endless speed tests are familiar challenges for court reporting students. But Kayde Rieken, a student at the College of Court…
The National Court Reporters Foundation hosted a second Hard-of-Hearing Heroes Project initiative on June 23 at the 2017 Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) Convention…
Where you get your information OTIS is the Offender Tracking Information System in Michigan. This was over signing a form without reading it first. A.…
In honor of Earth Day, which was April 22, the JCR Weekly asked members, “What is one way you’re going green in your professional life?”…
Cathy Rajcan, RDR, CRR, CRC, understands the importance of access in all situations. One of her regular assignments is providing CART for lectures at the…
Cryptographs (Mr. Jones was conducting the deposition by phone.) MR. JONES: And for the record, I can hear writing going on, and I just want…
In March, Mirabai Knight, RDR, CRR, CRC, and The Open Steno Project launched a crowdfunding campaign to fund the development of a series of games…
NCRA member Lois Boyle, RMR, Newport News, Va., was quoted in an article posted by the Daily Press on Nov. 8 about area theaters providing…
High security, audio glitches, and sometimes difficult accents didn’t hinder the NCRA members who had the opportunity to caption the events held during Pope Francis’…
By Marianne Lindley Girten In retrospect, it’s astonishing how briefly, yet how blindingly, the blaze of his personality soared through our orbit. During only a…
Hawaii mandated accommodations for people with hearing or visual impairments at all theaters in the state, according to a May 7 article in The Garden…
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