Captioning, a technology that makes television and video programming accessible to deaf and hard of hearing people.
When not enough video programming was voluntarily closed captioned, Congress had to step in. Legal requirements for closed captioning on television.
Closed captioning has been found to benefit more than just deaf and hard of hearing people. It also benefits hearing children learning how to read and English as a Second Language students.
The story of Caption Action, an early grassroots campaign to increase closed captioning on home video.
Although we have laws requiring captioning on television, there is no such requirement for the internet. These are suggestions on how to get a program on television or the internet captioned.
Captioning is a growth field, and it needs employees for offline and realtime (live) captioning.
We have come a long way since this article was first published. Hard to believe now that there was a time when deaf people did not get to see first-run captioned movies, but there was.
Closed captioning has now been around for a long time. This article looks at the history in brief, and includes my own contributions to closed captioning history.
Captioning rarely makes the news, and this time it did. When it became known that the trashy Jerry Springer show was being closed captioned with Federal money, it created an uproar.
Feature article on web captioning technology.
Feature article on my first experience with rear window captioning.
Profile of the Captioned Media Program, a free-loan program for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Need a cheap and easy way to caption a theater performance for a college or high school with a low budget for accessibility? Check out this article.
Feature article on my second, more positive experience with RWC.
For the webmasters out there - an article on making web sites section 508 accessible for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Feature article on captioning.
When the FCC released its initial rulemaking on closed captioning, About Deafness wrote a critique.
