London, Mar 5 : YouTube videos can now be more accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing thanks to new automatic captions technology. [...] more »

What about services for the deaf or those who are hearing disabled? What exactly is open captioning? Open captioning uses a portable LED screen set up ... [...] more »

Aside from the ADA, the 1986 Air Carrier Access Act (ACAA) also covers certain aspects of accommodations for the deaf and hard-of-hearing; it states that ... [...] more »

When I was a child, I did not know that subtitled foreign films were one source of movie entertainment for deaf people. Then one night I was sick and woke ... [...] more »

As for deaf people, I'd never met one. Then a chance visit to the doctor when I was in my 30s resulted in surgery that, eight years ago, left me completely ... [...] more »

Demetria Beasley is deaf, but says she wants to go to the movies too... Now she and her family have started a grass roots campaign to get closed captioning ... [...] more »

He says in a statement that the bill would allow hundreds of thousands of deaf and hard of hearing Kentuckians to enjoy movies in theaters. ... [...] more »

Ray S. Jones II, D-Pikeville, has filed a bill to open up the magic of Hollywood to the 646000 deaf and hard of hearing persons in Kentucky. ... [...] more »

Imagine that you're deaf and you see these pictures and you don't know what's happening.'' Jay Feinberg of the National Captioning Institute said captioners ... [...] more »

Cinema chains are losing valuable customers by refusing to increase the number of closed caption sessions. [...] more »

The bill is aimed at making it easier for deaf people to watch programs in bars and restaurants. Though committee members all said they liked the bill in ... [...] more »

TuTv, a joint venture of Grupo Televisa and Univision Communications, announced that it is joining forces with the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) to provide Spanish-language captions for selected short videos, also known as “vlogs,” produced in American Sign Language (ASL) by NAD. The vlogs will be available at the NAD website, www.nad.org. TuTv already provides closed captioning for its networks, including De Película and De Película Clásico’s extensive film library. [...] more »

YouTube has a global audience, so if you want to reach as many people as possible, you’ll have to make sure subtitles are available for your videos. You’ll want closed captioning to reach the deaf and hard of hearing, too. Thankfully, that process has shifted from relatively easy to an absolute breeze in recent months. [...] more »

ITFC, the London-based content management services company, has won the contract to provide all of Five’s subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing. [...] more »

When it comes to the Internet, the deaf and hard of hearing don't have many options when it comes to viewing TV shows or videos on the web. ... [...] more »