Are we just totally in love with Google? Today Google announed automatic captioning on YouTube. Plus more here, if you're interested: For the past few years, how to make user generated content (UGC) has played on my mind, and I... [...] more »

A question in parliament around subtitling on television: Rosie Cooper (PPS (Mr Ben Bradshaw, Minister of State), Department of Health; West Lancashire, Labour) What steps are being taken to ensure that television programmes are accessible to deaf children—and deaf adults,... [...] more »

The BBC says it has now reached a 100% subtitling target in respect of television: BBC Vision has confirmed that it has reached its target of subtitling 100% of programs on its main channels - BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three, BBC Four, CBeebies, CBBC and BBC News. Deaf and hard of hearing people will now be able to fully enjoy the complete range of BBC television programs on these networks. This is good news, and the hard work of campaigners, especially that of the Deaf Broadcasting Council spanning over decades. [...] more »

Google video now has closed captions in multiple languages. Shame people don't use it more though! The irony is that blog posts says: A video with a ton of available CC languages: However there's no English subtitles to be seen? [...] more »

Firstly, what is this about captioned radio ‘for deaf people’?! (You can read more about it here and here and here.) While this has been a long time coming, Tony was right in pointing out that deaf people cannot interact with captioned radio by calling in and making comments like hearing people do. [...] more »

Directed by Charlie Swinbourne - exclusive subtitled preview of new 12 minute deaf short film coming out in November 2007.Fully signed in British Sign Language, the movie stars John Smith, Ilan Dwek, Matthew Kirby and Jonathan Reid as ‘Four Deaf Yorkshiremen.’ One man challenges the others to tell him the worst story about growing up [... [...] more »

The BBC is available on YouTube (channel only available in the UK). YouTube BBC Worldwide is available for those outside the UK. More about this on the BBC's website. [...] more »

Teletext When I was growing up in the 70’s the only TV Programme we could watch was non-talkie movies.. such as Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and early Laurel and Hardy films. I couldn’t watch cartoons such as Tom and Jerry, Scooby Doo, Captain Pugwash and Magic Roundabout. [...] more »

Boing Boing is carrying a post about subtitlers getting arrested: In Krakow, Slask, Podlasie, and Szczecin, police arrived at the suspected subtitlers’ homes at 6 a.m. — and took them into custody. [...] more »

I went shopping with my wife and in the supermarket I can be found veering toward the beer section and then onto DVD. I picked up the Royale Family DVD and like I always do check if it carry subtitles not surprisingly it doesn’t. The Royale family first shown on BBC and I like the BBC as [... [...] more »

Came across this might be worth a try People who are deaf and hard of hearing do not have a wide range of choice what to watch on digital TV as only a selected few programmes are subtitled. All we are asking for is to make digital Tv companies subtitle 100% of programmes to give us [...] [...] more »

This is an e mail I've just sent to Access Firefox, and copying this into relevant parties, in respect of the need for a plugin plus an open source standard in respect of subtitling by third party sites, and the need to communicate with its end users over subtitling provision. I am hoping that this will generate some action: Hi Ken I got your e mail address from Deaf UK Technology, as an e mail of yours was sent there a couple of months ago. [...] more »

It had to happen. There's now a porn site that carries subtitles. It also provides audio description and zoom in for blind people too. [...] more »

Continuing the theme of accessibility, a Deaf Gamer asks for subtitles: Dear Sir or Ma'aam, I am a deaf 20 year old that loves to play videogames. I've been playing videogames ever since I first played the Atari 2600 with my father as a young child. Back then, games were not as complex as they are today. [...] more »

Last year I issued a formal complaint and threatened legal action against the BBC as far as the lack of subtitling and BSL being produced online. For those of you who are interested, this is the latest state of play: Subtitling Trial: subtitles are being trialled on multiple sites. Participating sites include: See Hear, Video Nation, Click and Panorama for subtitles in English and Capture Wales and Eorpa (Welsh or Gaelic). [...] more »