WASHINGTON, DC – Monday, May 7th, the White House will, today, honor 14 individuals as Champions of Change for leading the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math for people with disabilities in education and employment. “STEM is vital to America’s future in education and employment, so equal access for people with disabilities is imperative, [...]
Extended Comment Deadline: June 4, 2012 Extended Reply Comment Deadline: June 19, 2012 The Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010 (CVAA) directed the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to establish the Video Programming Accessibility Advisory Committee (VPAAC). On April 9, 2012, the VPAAC submitted its second report to the FCC. That report is [...]
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EasyCC Caption Correction System (CCS) Explained Introduction: Real-time captioned text is an important service for people who are deaf or hard of hearing, providing: information from classroom, conference and webinar sessions; and, critical news information about their local communities, national events and emergencies. Captioning mandates designed to provide equal access to television have resulted in [...]
From 1990-1994 Steve Jacobs, President of IDEAL Group and CEO, Apps4Android served as Chairman of AT&T Project Freedom. It was during this time that Steve’s engineering group pioneered the development and use of interactive video technology for sign-language communications over telephones. This technology is, of course, now referred to Video Relay Services (VRS). This is [...]
The pre-Internet digital news service shuts down in the UK, but survives in Northern Europe By Lauren Kirchner Just about every television in Europe has a “teletext” button. Push the button on your television remote and you’re digitally transported to the early 1980s. Against a black background, brief news dispatches are spelled out in bright, [...]
Mobile DTV Pavilion at NAB to Showcase Latest Consumer Services LAS VEGAS, Apr 17, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) — As broadcasters prepare to launch Mobile Digital TV services across the country, the Mobile DTV Pavilion at the 2012 NAB Show will be the place to go to see the latest in mobility services. Both Mobile [...]
The 2012 NAB SHOW had its formal opening MONDAY morning (4/17) in LAS VEGAS with an ending session introduced by actress TERI HATCHER, who initially called it the “Nab Show” (and later, apparently unaware of her mistake, said that she feared mistakenly pronouncing the name as “nab”). This year’s theme is “The Great Content Shift,” [...]
Las Vegas, Nevada – Uvault®, a web and media hosting services provider specializing in secure streaming, is bringing the first real time closed caption capture and delivery solution to computers, tablets, and mobile phones via their Wowza based cloud computing network. Uvault is working jointly with CPC, the leading closed caption solution provider, to develop [...]
DANVILLE — Theater-goers in Danville and Mattoon will soon be able to enjoy movies, regardless of hearing or vision disabilities. As the result of a settlement with Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, AMC Theatres has agreed to provide personal captioning services and audio-description technology for people with disabilities at all of its theaters. Those include [...]