Reporting is tough. Transcribing is tough. Transcribing live on tee vee is totally tough especially if there's a damn fire raging. Recently a captioner working for KABC made a mistake that Snopes ...

When people think of accessibility and assistive technologies, the images conjured up most often are of disabilities like blindness or deafness or colorblindness. Wheelchair users, amputees, and ...

Closed captioning is valuable for TV broadcasters, OTT platforms, and many other businesses because it makes their content accessible to a broader audience. Besides that, closed captioning helps TV ...

The other night, my hubby and I snuggled down to have some quiet time in front of the TV when it occurred to us that the closed captioning feature was activated on one of the channels. As we fiddled ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- A TV captioning service has apologized for misidentifying "New Girl" star Zooey Deschanel (ZOH'-ee deh-shuh-NEHL') as one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects on a Texas news ...

Accompanying a photo of accused Boston bombing suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev read the caption, "Marathon Bomber. He is 19-year-old Zooey Deschanel." KDFW via Twitter Zooey Deschanel has received a formal ...

Colorado's Vana Ouzts shares her experiences as a closed captioner.She speed-types the words that run along the bottom of a TV screen for deaf and hearing-impaired viewers.

Before the start of each term, Disability Services (DS) will send an email to all students approved for Sign Language Interpreting (SLI), Real Time Captioning (RTC), and/or Post Production Captioning ...