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Friday, March 16th, 2007Posted 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, 2007People 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 […]
IP Relay Misuse
Friday, February 9th, 2007The NAD and other consumer advocacy group representatives have been meeting with relay service providers and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to address concerns about IP Relay misuse, fraud, and scams. IP Relay is misused by people who are not deaf or hard of hearing. Those people use IP Relay to engage in fraudulent and […]
Closed Captioning – Update
Friday, January 26th, 2007The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted NAD’s request for a 120-day extension to file comments and oppositions to hundreds of requests for exemption from the closed captioning rules. The deadline for filing comments and oppositions is extended to March 27, 2007. The FCC also granted NAD’s request for permission for consumers and other consumer advocacy […]
Accessible Emergency Information
Thursday, January 4th, 2007In the summer of 2006, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) distributed a Public Notice about closed captioning emergency information. According to that Public Notice, when big city TV stations say they tried, but failed to close caption emergency information, that was OK with the FCC.
That was not OK with the NAD.
The NAD, joined by other […]
Closed Captioning – Update
Tuesday, November 21st, 2006Hundreds of deaf and hard of hearing consumers took action. They protested the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) decision to approve almost 300 requests for new TV programs to be shown without closed captions. Consumers sent hundreds of e-mails to the FCC Chairman, Commissioners, and staff.
Your advocacy efforts were successful.
The FCC scanned hundreds of […]
Protest the FCC’s Closed Captioning Decisions
Friday, September 22nd, 2006Watch ASL Video (An important announcement from NAD, TDI, and other deaf and hard of hearing advocacy groups, presented by Don Lee Hanaumi. The text below is an English translation of the ASL video message.) UPDATE: Editor’s note, the link to the ASL Video has been disabled now.Last week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) appoved almost […]
NAD Files Complaint against Washington Redskins and FedEx Field
Friday, September 1st, 2006The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) and Joseph B. Espo, an attorney with Brown, Goldstein & Levy, LLP in Baltimore, Maryland, filed a class action lawsuit against the Washington Redskins and FedEx Field football stadium. The complaint, filed with the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, claims that the Washington Redskins […]
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 […]