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Thank You for Taking Action on Closed Captions

Friday, March 30th, 2007

The NAD asked you to oppose requests for TV programs to be shown without closed captions, in your state.  You took action.  Wow!  Consumers like you filed over 500 comments with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) opposing TV programs without closed captions.
THANK YOU . . .  THANK YOU . . .  THANK YOU. 
 
The NAD, along […]

NAD Interviewed by CNN about Movie Captioning

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

CNN interviewed the NAD and others about movie captioning and aired a report about movie captioning technology on March 25, 2007. 
The CNN technology broadcast, titled “Movi es for the Hearing Impaired,” can now be seen online.  It shows some of the emerging movie captioning technologies described in a recent NAD Advocacy Blog post(see “Movie Captioning […]

Don’t Throw Away Your TTY!

Monday, March 19th, 2007

Today’s technology presents our community with many communication choices. We can text message our boss on a cell phone, IM our kids on a PDA (like a Sidekick or Blackberry device), and chat with our moms through video relay. We have communication gizmos and gadgets we can throw in our purse, hang on […]

Closed Captioning – Time to Take Action

Friday, March 16th, 2007

Posted March 16, 2007
The battle for TV closed captions continues. It is time to take action. Time to oppose requests from TV programs to be shown without closed captions, in your state.
The NAD made it easy to do. It must be done by March 27.
Remember last September, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) […]

Movie Captioning Update

Friday, March 9th, 2007

People who are deaf or hard of hearing want to be able to attend any showing of any movie in any theater at any time.  We want to be able to sit anywhere in the movie theater with our family and friends.  We want equal access to the movie soundtrack through high quality captioning that […]