Archive for August, 2006
Protect Emergency Captioning!
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006[gv data=”http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=4654615300583425829″ width=”320″ height=”255″][/gv]
(Editor’s Note: The captioned version of this video will be available next week)
Draft script for video:
Hello, my name is Frank Bowe. I am a government affairs consultant for the National Association of the Deaf (NAD).
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently distributed a “Clarification†about a requirement for TV stations to caption emergency […]
Movie Captioning Update
Friday, August 11th, 2006The NAD recently prepared information about captioned movies for the 2006 NAD Conference in Palm Desert, CA. That information includes:
•   a summary of movie captioning technologies (including a comparison chart);
•   a history of movie captioning efforts; and
•   a description of movie captioning access advocacy efforts, including a description of what you can do in your […]
Kelby Brick Farewell Message
Friday, August 11th, 2006[gv data=”http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=6487068836109895111″ width=”320″ height=”255″][/gv]
Hello this is Kelby Brick from the National Association of the Deaf (NAD). I wanted to let you know that the action videos from the last two weeks resulted in many comments filed with the government. Many officials were very surprised at the volume of filings from consumers like you. They did […]