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Close Captioned Online

July 7th, 2009, 10:12 am by Hana

A new bill in Congress, the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2009, seeks to make it mandatory to provide closed captioned online and make Internet more accessible to the deaf and others who rely on captioning. The Act can be read here: COAT Web site.Within this article are links to contacting representative Ed Markey and Senators to support the bill. The link for signing the petition to support the bill is here: Petition to Support the Bill. Additionally, there is a group on Facebook named Caption Action 2: Internet Captioning that seeks to gather members to show and send support of this Act to our Representatives and Senators. The Act was introduced on June 26, 2009 and the word needs to go out that it is available and needs to be supported.

I’m for this because I’ve been watching shows online since they began appearing on the Internet. I rarely watch TV because I’m always on the computer, plus it’s easier to watch shows in sequel online because places like Hulu organize them into episodes. Although iTunes, Hulu and Google have been working to provide captioned videos on their web sites, it’s still inadequate because it’s purely voluntary. There is no requirement legally binding companies to provide their videos with captioning included, online. Show your support today and have your voice counted!

Why have captioning? Nowadays, televisions are mandated by the Telecommunications Act in 1996 to have closed captioning available. This needs to also be passed into shows and movies on the Internet. Please support the 21st Century Communications and Video accessibility Act of 2009.

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My Trip to Yuba College March 31, 2009

April 2nd, 2009, 11:42 am by Hana

On Tuesday, March 31, I went over to Yuba College to speak to Cari Carter’s ASL I and ASL II classes about living and working as a Deaf person in a newspaper industry focusing on the Internet. In ASL I began with a general “who I am” introduction before going into family life experience, mainstreamed school experience, college at American River College and California State University Northridge before going into the working world as a computer graphics design, then into webmastering and going back to college to obtain a BFA degree in Web Development through International Academy of Design and Technology, Tampa online. In ASL II, I described the job titles, functions, and responsibilities of Courtney Lopez, Steve Nelson and myself (sorry Robert LaHue, I limited to three job descriptions). After I talked with the classes, it was their turn to ask questions and comments.

Full story is under this jump.

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It’s Illegal to Discriminate Video (with closed captions) by FHAHUD

March 24th, 2009, 2:37 pm by Hana

Check this video out if you haven’t seen it yet on Facebook or YouTube:

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Captioned Movie Trailers

January 3rd, 2008, 11:58 am by

You know those movie trailers? Wish they were captioned?

Fear not. You can find them captioned on billcreswell, one of the blogs that I visit. Bill Creswell is ideal because he works for a theatre that provides Closed Captioning for those who are deaf and hard of hearing, and Descriptive Audio for those who are blind and low-sighted. I know there are captioned trailers on Google and other places, but you kind of have to dig for them.

I kept seeing this trailer for “One Missed Call” and wondered what the heck the main female character was hearing on the cell phones. So I hopped online and checked out billcreswell’s blog. There it was. She was hearing the sounds people made before they died. Now I’m satisfied with the knowledge.

Little things like this leave a big mystery to me and I just have to know what it is.

I thought I’d pass on the information!

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