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Image via WikipediaA New Meme Is Brewing: YouTube CaptionFail. This is one of those situations where you wonder is it good to have captioning even though a lot of it is messed up or no captioning. I tried to autocaption......

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STC AccessAbility SIG has two great articles, What is Unclear About Captioning and Olympian Anger -- Is It So Hard to Remember Accessibility (amen!). More on Vancouver Olympic Websites from 456 Berea St. Mike Paciello provides a short update on......

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Image via WikipediaSource: Deafnetwork On Friday, Feb. 19, 2010, two important new closed captioning rules were published in the Federal Register and went into effect. The new rules require immediate attention by video programming distributors -- including broadcast television stations......

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Image via WikipediaDoes it ever end? Apparently, the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver has not learned anything from the Olympic-sized accessibility problems of the past. [Joe Clark provides the details](http://joeclark.org/access/webaccess/vancouver2010/).......

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Image via Wikipedia I thought I had blogged this story, but only found bits and pieces. So here’s the whole story as my daughter remembers it. I’d like to think that I was a unique individual from birth. I learned,......

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Image via Wikipedia From Hearing Aid Tax Credit web site: What would the Hearing Aid Assistance Tax Credit Act do? And, what are the differences in the House and Senate legislation? The bill in the House of Representatives (H.R. 1646)......

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Who Are You Hiring in 2010? Thinking About Diversity in Another Way is a fabulous article that looks at hiring trends and thinking beyond the label. See Think Beyond the Label to learn how you can evolve your workforce. The......

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No matter how you feel about the Dallas Cowboys — you have to give them credit. From Deaf Network of Texas. Softeq Development Corporation has implemented DURATEQ Live with Intelligent Access mobile captioning, audio description, and assistive listening service at......

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17 Misconceptions about People with Hearing Loss shares great information answering many common questions I get from people. Some are afraid to ask the questions in fear of insulting someone. But I welcome them. Here I share my responses to......

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If you’re like me, you search for captioned video on a per site basis. For example, you use Hulu’s cc only caption feature, Google Video’s show captioned videos only feature and YouTube’s “closed captioned” type feature. Even these search tools......

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Lots of things to report courtesy Bill Creswell [@grwebguy, who should be greatccguy]. The Year in Captions in 2009 Closed-Captions Missing from Several On Demand Movies 17 Misconceptions about People with Hearing Loss University of Arizona launches a class to......

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Laura Carlson provides two great links in her long-time excellent resource, Web Design References. I don’t know how long I’ve been reading it… but most certainly over five years. Accessible Web Design provides US disability statistics: Measurement and sources. Jesblog......

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Lots of resources from DeafNetwork. Going To College http://www.going-to-college.org/ This new website contains information about living college life with a disability. It is designed for high school students. The site provides video clips, activities, and resources that can help them......

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Livestream, in partnership with PLYmedia, now offers live subtitling service for live streaming events. It’s not cheap at $850 for three hours of live captioning, but it’s an option. How many users can afford it considering many use the free......

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Google has unveiled speech recognition technology to automatically add captions to many videos on YouTube. The technology will also allow users to automatically translate the captions into 51 languages. Google introduced another service called “auto-timing” that allows users uploading videos......

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