Closed Captioning Blog

We’ve been blogging about this legislation for months, and the battle has been won!  President Obama signed the 21st Century Communications & Video Accessibility Act into law on Friday, October 8, 2010, during the National Disability Employment Awareness Month. This new legislation requires smart phones, television programs, emergency broadcast information, the Internet, menus on DVD players, program guides on cable TV,  and other communication devices  to be accessible ...

Want to help spread the word about the need for closed captions on the Internet? Become a fan of Caption Action 2 on Facebook.  This movement originated as “Caption Action” in the late 1980s and early 1990s in order to get closed captions on home videos. The new movement’s focus is to get legislation passed in Congress to mandate closed captioning on the Internet. So far, this has ...

YouTube now recognizes the need for online videos to be closed captioned and for that we say, “Hooray!” However, it is becoming increasingly clear that while their new automatic voice recognition software allows their videos to be quickly captioned, the technology still has its bugs and its accuracy leaves a lot to be desired. In fact, the actual errors are so great that it has now spawned tons ...

Have you ever noticed how fast you speak sometimes?  I know we all notice the speed at which we drive down the freeway, even if we pretend not to, but have you ever stopped to think about the speed at which you speak? And more so, could a dragon help you realize this? I don’t know about you, but I had never thought about any other way of typing ...

¿Alguna vez se han preguntado qué tan rápido hablan? Yo sé que todos nos damos cuenta de la velocidad a la que manejamos en la autopista, aunque pretendamos que no, pero ¿Alguna vez se han puesto a pensar sobre la velocidad en la que hablan? Y aparte, ¿Puede un dragón ayudarles a darse cuenta de esto? Yo no sé ustedes, pero yo nunca había pensado sobre ningún otro tipo ...

On the 20th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 348 members of the U.S. House of Representatives voted for HR 3101, the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act. This act will require closed captioning on all Internet video information and will help millions of people have access to these videos. This act will also provide up to $10 million annually for specialized communications equipment for low-income ...

YouTube and Google are now indexing videos for text that is contained within each video’s closed captions and/or subtitles. Therefore, ensuring that your video is closed captioned will certainly lead to increased views given that your video will now rank for any words that are contained within the closed captioned text. This text will assist the search engine and will help with indexing and ranking for certain key ...

Looking for a dream job? Certified realtime stenographers can set their own schedules, work from anywhere in the world and can make six figures a year. Mirabai Knight, a stenographer in New York, composed a six part article on her website entitled “What Is Steno Good For?” It’s an insightful look into the career of stenography and the challenges that steno students face. In “CART, Court, and Captioning,” ...

Aberdeen Captioning has been qualified as a “YouTube Ready” vendor by DCMP. As a DCMP “Approved Captioning Service Vendor,” Aberdeen is committed to providing quality captioning in multimedia formats, now including your YouTube videos. This allows your YouTube video to be captioned according to DCMP guidelines and with a customer satisfaction guarantee. Aberdeen offers different choices for your YouTube video and will work closely to establish a package ...

On June 20, 2010, New York Times reporter Brian Stelter wrote an article that criticized the lack of captioning available for Web videos. He states that advocates like Marlee Matlin have been fighting for captions on popular sites like CNN.com and Netflix. Many sites that contain videos and entertainment clips such as CBS.com, NBC.com, and MSN.com all lack captions or are inconsistent with their captions. With a growing trend ...