Sioux Falls, S.D., residents who are hard of hearing are calling on city officials to provide more interpreters and closed captioning services to provide them…
Posts tagged as “Captioning”
A blog posted Aug. 6 by the Northwest Herald, Crystal Lake, Ill., explores how closed captioning has evolved from the 1950s through today. Read more.
Effective Aug. 1, all televisions in medical facilities in Minnesota are required to have their closed captioning on, due to a law authorized by Minnesota…
Online registration for NCRA 2016 Convention & Expo happening at the Hilton Chicago, Chicago, Ill., Aug. 4-7, closes July 29, so hurry and register now…
A June 24 blog post by Toby Osbourn discussed the value of having captioning at conferences for a variety of attendees. The post was prompted…
On June 3, several NCRA members, along with NCRA Director of Government Relations Adam Finkel, participated in a caption quality meeting in Washington, D.C. The…
A press release issued June 2 announced that NCRA member Constance Lee, RPR, a freelance reporter from Pittsburgh, Pa., provided closed captioning for game one…
On May 27, Bloomberg BNA posted a story about new guidelines issues by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that address language translation, content description,…
An article posted by the Valley Town Crier on May 12 about the spring commencement ceremonies at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley showcases…
NCRA’s CEO and Executive Director, Mike Nelson, CAE, was interviewed last month for a segment of Comcast Newsmakers, a program that provides news and information…
An article posted April 25 by GCN reports that the U.S. Supreme Court set aside its policy against cell phones in the courtroom recently when…
A post on April 26 VITAC’s blog by broadcast captioner Brittany Bender recalls her quest to obtain the lyrics to two new songs that the…
Arizona individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing can now actively participate in meetings (in-person or remote), phone calls, videoconferencing, and multi-party teleconference calls…
A high school teacher from East Brunswick, N.J., who is deaf says multiple requests for the district to provide a CART reporter for graduation have…
Lawyers who are deaf or hard-of-hearing are set to be sworn in to the U.S. Supreme Court bar on April 19, in a first-ever mass…
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…
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…