The Maui News, Hawaii, reported on April 3 that moviegoers who are deaf or hard of hearing on the island will now have captioning right…
Posts tagged as “Captioning”
On March 15, Adam Finkel, NCRA Director of Government Relations, submitted comments to the Federal Communications Commission in response to a report filed by the…
Broadcasting & Cable posted an article on March 9 about the leeway that live programmers will have with online captioning requirements when the FCC launches…
The JCR Awards were created as a way to highlight the innovative and forward-thinking practices of NCRA members and to recognize how court reporters, captioners,…
The Takeaway interviewed NCRA member Amy Bowlen, RDR, CRR, CRC, a broadcast captioner from Imperial, Pa., and manager of training at VITAC, on March 3…
On Feb. 18, Davis Wright Tremaine, a legal services firm based in Seattle, Wash., commented on where the responsibility lies for the FCC’s closed captioning…
For most people, the only stress associated with the Super Bowl is whether their team wins or loses. However, for Paula Arispe, RPR, Octavia Brandenburg,…
The Texas Association of Broadcasters reported on Feb. 8 that the Federal Communications Commission has upheld its denial of a San Antonio church’s exemption request…
In 2014, a coalition of concerned citizens called Portland: Turn on the Captions Now brought the issue of local businesses not turning the captions on…
The Hearing Loss Association of America – Kansas City Chapter has launched the Kansas: Open Caption Initiatives and Kansas: Turn On the TV Captions Now…
In a press release issued Jan. 26, the National Association of the Deaf (NAD), a non-profit civil rights organization, announced that it has partnered with…
On Jan. 26, the Broadcasting Accessibility Fund announced that it will award $723,500 in grants to seven innovative projects designed to advance accessibility to broadcasting content…
An article posted Jan. 22 on Microsoft’s Accessibility Blog reported that on Jan. 8, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences held the 67th…
On Jan. 21, North Carolina State University posted on its blog that it has established a captioning grant to assist faculty in creating accessible videos.…
An article posted Dec. 16 by Smithsonian.com tracks the story of how a 17-year-old named Daniil Frants, and his team, was inspired to design closed-captioning…
Whether attending the live workshop at the annual convention or taking the e-seminar now available for the new Certified Realtime Captioner certification, NCRA members can…
KITV Island News reported on Jan. 2 that Hawaii is now the first state in the nation to provide equal access to movie theaters for people…
NCRA staff members are planning great ways for members to earn CEUs this year. NCRA members can also earn CEUs by passing the skills or…
During the November Board Meeting, the NCRA Board of Directors officially approved the NCRA Code of Professional Ethics for CART and Broadcast Captioners. The code…