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Captioning on the Internet? Believe it or not, it will soon be required if people with hearing loss are to have full access to the… Read More »Internet Captioning for people with hearing loss

Editor: CaptionMax and the NAD have received a couple of grants from the US Department of Education to caption and describe hundreds of additional items… Read More »NAD and CaptionMax Cooperate to Provide More Captioned Media

Editor: Many complaints about Television Closed Captioning never get addressed, because people don’t complain in the appropriate fashion. We could argue all day about the… Read More »Filing a Television Closed Captioning Complaint

By Cheryl Heppner November 2009 Editor: The good news is that Google intends to caption YouTube videos. The bad news is that they will be… Read More »Google and YouTube: Leading the Way for Internet Captioning

Movies without captions are generally inaccessible to people with hearing loss. It is incomprehensible to me that our society can allow a portion of our… Read More »Captioned Movies for People With Hearing Loss

Some of you may have seen or even used video relay service. It’s been offered on a trial basis in California, and possible other states.… Read More »Texas Offers Video Relay

Video Relay Service is a method of providing relay between a deaf person and a hearing person that allows the deaf person to sign and… Read More »Video Relay Service

Every state is required by law to provide a telecommunications relay service, which enables people with special telecommunications needs to communicate with others. An example… Read More »Telecommunications Relay Service

Many people with hearing loss believe that hearing aids are far too expensive, and that audiologists and dealers get a huge markup on them. One… Read More »Hearing Aid Affordability

People with hearing loss may have have difficulty getting and keeping jobs. Those that have employment need communications accommodations to function most effectively. Employer’s efforts… Read More »Hearing loss and employment