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• Caption This: Bettes queen-sized reaction

  
  Celebritology — Authority: 131
  If we can possibly tear ourselves away from Tiger, I ask that we turn our collective attention to one Bette Midler, aka the Divine Miss M, who Monday pulled the face you see below upon meeting Queen Elizabeth. We can understand how that might discombobulate one, but whats with the manicure hands pose and why is that ...
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• Australian Affiliate Notes that Digital TV Transition Drives Review of Accessibility

  
  Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology - — Authority: 124
  COATs International Friend, Media Access of Australia, reports that the government has released a new report on "Access to Electronic Media for the Hearing and Vision Impaired; Approaches for Consideration--Discussion Report 2009."   With Australia transitioning to all-digital television in 2013 and other media ...
  1 week ago

• Google adds auto-captioning to YouTube

  
  Eric Stoller's Blog — Authority: 117
  Google does not always create accessible products (GoogleWave). However, sometimes they do a good job of increasing the accessibility of an existing service. I hope that Vimeo gets the message that... .
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• Ozarks; Creative Captioning

  
  Red Pine Mountain — Authority: 116
  After reading all your responses to the mystery dwelling in the woods and once again seeing how creative and imaginative you are, Ive got a challenge for you:  "Caption That Picture."  Ive taken some of my favorite Ozarks shots, made an attempt at writing a caption but Id love to see what youd do.  If you want to ...
  1 week ago

• Closed Captioning – A Very Public Affair

  
  47 Movies — Authority: 157
  Most people think of closed captioning as something used only in the privacy of our homes. In fact, the Americans with Disabilities Act has resulted in an increased use of both open and closed captioning in public places. Continue reading here: Closed Captioning – A Very Public Affair
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• Recommended Reading for November 26

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 646
  They hate you. Yes, you. Because the first thing people use on us is always, “It’s not about you.” When I was a kid, when I first started reading about autism rights, it was so instinctive: of course it’s wrong to say “cure autism now.” Of course it’s wrong to say autism is a tragedy, a disease, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bluetooth miracles

  
  At The Rim — Authority: 121
  Probably the worst attempt at promoting assistive devices for us..... The hard of hearing (The SUN newspaper headlined it as a Deaf aid) said we no longer need to turn the volume right up or resort to subtitles to enjoy their favourite telly shows. A new hearing aid has been unveiled which enables wearers to have ...
  2 weeks ago

• COAT Awaits Reply from MPAA on HR 3101

  
  Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology - — Authority: 124
  In an effort to move HR 3101 along, COAT leadership sent letters to many industry trade associations in September and October asking if they had any further concerns or issues with HR 3101. While many groups, and individual companies, have responded, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) still has yet to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Disney Claims "Up" DVD Missing Captions Were A Mistake [Pixar]

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 800
  Many Consumerist readers wrote to Disney about the missing captions in rental editions of the Pixar movie "Up," either because they were personally affected or they found the omission offensive. In their response, Disney at least acknowledges the unique issue and promises to make up for the mistake of consumers ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dogear-Nation – Episode 130 – What’s Happening

  
  Dogear Nation — Authority: 106
  Hey, Hey, Hey, What’s Happening? Raj, Rerun, and Dwayne are all back this episode for some good old fashion fun. After meeting up at our favorite lunch time place, the 3D Internet, we venture over to a strange and wonderful tech-no-tronic world full of scalability and youtube. Ultimately Dwayne asks, What’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• YouTube Captioning Makes Video More Accessible for All

  
  on dot-gov — Authority: 401
  Dear Google/YouTube, We want it. We want it NOW! xoxo, Your Dot-gov Buddies A big barrier to making video content available to people who cant hear is creating captions for the audio--like the closed captioning you see on TV. This is especially important to government because we are required-- by law and ...
  2 weeks ago

• YouTube introduces automatic video captioning

  
  TECH.BLORGE.com — Authority: 623
  YouTube has announced it will offer automated video captioning for clips. It will serve as an accessibility tool for hard-of-hearing viewers, but could also make clips easier to find. The site already allows manual captioning, but most clip uploaders don’t take advantage simply because of [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Auto-captions come to YouTube

  
  SciTechBlog — Authority: 522
  Some of YouTubes videos started featuring machine-generated captions this week. Thats a potentially huge change for the deaf and hearing impaired, who still dont have access to the vast majority of online video. Writing on the Official Google Blog (dont forget, Google owns YouTube), software engineer Ken ...
  3 weeks ago

• Cleveland TV station has bad closed-captioning on the weather

  
  Guyism celebs — Authority: 664
  If there’s one thing I learned at a young age, it’s that people with disabilities are just as capable of success as you or I am (unless there aren’t ramps by the entrance to a building). But many people with disabilities persevere and achieve great things. Unfortunately, we don’t make it easy on them, as ...
  3 weeks ago

• Google Voice to Caption

  
  symtym — Authority: 121
  
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• Google adding automatic captions to YouTube videos (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  AP – Think of it as closed captioning for the new media world. The rest is here:  (AP)"> (AP)">Google adding automatic captions to YouTube videos (AP)
  3 weeks ago

• COAT Affiliates Attend Launch of Googles YouTube Captioning System

  
  Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology - — Authority: 124
  On Thursday, November 19, many COAT affiliates -- AAPD , ACB , CSD , HLAA , NAD , NCI , NCIL , NVRC , TDI -- attended the exciting launch of Googles YouTube automated captioning system. read more
  3 weeks ago

• Youtube to include captions for hearing impaired, meetings

  
  Computerworld Blogs — Authority: 145
  Google today will make available automatic speech recognition captioning for its Youtube video selection.  You can also add captioning manually by following directions on Youtubes site here. read more
  3 weeks ago

• LinkedIn Poll Indicates Some Awareness about Captioning, Little about Video Description

  
  Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology - — Authority: 124
  Two quick polls were conducted on LinkedIn, a popular business-oriented social networking site that allows members to devise polls.Two questions were asked in separate polls. One was "Do you know how to turn on Closed Captioning on your TV?" and the other was "Do you know how to turn on Video Description on your ...
  3 weeks ago

• Deaf Free Lance Journalist Blogs on Rear Window Captioning at Movies

  
  Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology - — Authority: 124
  Thanks to the inventiveness of COAT affiliate WGBH Media Access Group, free-lance journalist Lisa Goldstein , who is deaf, enjoys using the Rear Window Captioning (RWC) system at her local Pittsburgh AMC movie theater.  Her editorial in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says it all. read more
  3 weeks ago

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