The FCC will run a forum in November at its headquarters to promote discussion about closed captioning of public access and governmental programming shown on…
Posts tagged as “Captioning”
CourtreporterEDU.org posted a story on July 7 announcing NCRA’s recent approval to combine its Certified Broadcast Captioner and Certified CART Provider certifications into the single…
NCRA has received questions on what’s included in each registration package for the 2015 NCRA Convention & Expo. Here’s a breakdown of each registration option…
NCRA participated in the Hearing Loss Association of America’s annual convention held June 25-28 in St. Louis, Mo., as one of many exhibitors. Adam Finkel,…
By Laura Brewer Perhaps you’ve heard of CART captioning, but you don’t really understand what it is. You are not alone. I once had a…
NCRA President Sarah E. Nageotte, RDR, CRR, CBC, responded to an editorial that appeared June 20 on Ohio.com, and written by Akron Beacon Journal columnist…
By Wes Long Microsoft is releasing Windows 10 on July 29. I have been to several technical presentations about this (and other) technologies being released…
1CapApp, which offers a realtime text streaming application, has introduced 1Fuzion, a desktop application that brings together all of 1CapApp’s technology and allows easy setup…
On May 8, The National Law Review posted an article updating closed captioning details based on a public notice released by FCC’s Consumer and Governmental…
Hawaii mandated accommodations for people with hearing or visual impairments at all theaters in the state, according to a May 7 article in The Garden…
Rochesterhomepage.com reported on March 27 that a student who is deaf studying at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry is suing the…
According to a March 21 post on ESPN’s Men’s College Basketball Blog, three Wisconsin Badgers players discovered the NCAA captioner—NCRA member Toni Christy, RPR, CRR,…
1CapApp announced a partnership with Uvision, on March 11 that will help companies comply with the new FCC mandate requiring programs on live television to…
On Feb. 19, NCRA filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission requesting that the agency waive a best practice required in its current captioning…
NCRA recently contacted the Society of Broadcast Engineers regarding concerns of how elimination of POTS lines affects closed captioning. According to a white paper submitted…
This week, the Described and Captioned Media Program is celebrating its Read Captions Across America campaign held in conjunction with the National Education Association’s Read…
In New Zealand, the National Foundation for the Deaf said broadcasters are denying Kiwis who are deaf and hard of hearing the right to equal…
The Asbury Park Press, Asbury Park, N.J., posted an article on its app.com website on Feb. 26 that tells the story of how one Rutgers and…
In less than two weeks, NCRA’s 2015 Court Reporting & Captioning Week will kick off, and this year there are double the resources available to…
A blog explaining why captioning should be a part of a company’s YouTube strategy was posted by Pace Co., a multi-media content provider, on Jan.…