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Website Lets You Search For Captioned Videos AND Learn Sign Language News

Open Captions is a website that lets you search for captioned YouTube videos. As the video is playing, if you click on a word in the captions, a small window opens and shows you the ASL The commonly used acronym for American Sign ...

Real Time Captioning for Employment and Work Settings (Captioning and CART) Article

Prepared by the CCAC (Collaborative for Communication Access via Captioning Text version of the spoken content of a movie, TV show, or video, displayed on the screen and synchronized with the audio. , a voluntary grass-roots advocacy ...

QuickTime Pro Captioning Tutorial News

3PlayMedia has developed a clear, concise step-by-step tutorial for creating closed captions Text version of the spoken content of a movie, TV show, or video, displayed on the screen and synchronized with the audio. /subtitles for any ...

Better Hearing Institute's List of Most Hearing-Aid Compatible Cell Phones News

An informative list has been compiled by the Better Hearing Institute . It is their complete list of U.S. phones with are the most compatible with hearing aids (meaning, carrying the highest rating of M4/T4*) Apple iPhone 4 (CDMA) Cal-Comp ...

Web CapTel: Telephone Captioning on the Go or at Home News

Web CapTel captions telephone conversations through web-based captioning Text version of the spoken content of a movie, TV show, or video, displayed on the screen and synchronized with the audio. . Any phone (including smart phones) may ...

Google+ Hangouts Improve Their Accessibility News

Google+ , Google's recently-released social network, has a group video chat feature called Hangouts . Hangout has 'voice activation' (not speech recognition Any technology that converts spoken words into text or ...

AT&T Updates Its Video Relay Service News

AT Products or systems used by people with disabilities in order to perform functions that might otherwise be difficult or impossible; examples include specialized keyboards, screen magnifiers, and captioning. &T Video Relay ...

Communicating with People Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing Article

Not all deaf and hard of hearing people use sign language; even if they do, they will likely encounter many people on a daily basis who do not. Speechreading (also known as lipreading) is another ...

New YouTube Channel Highlights Technology for Deaf People News

YouTube has a new channel called DeafTechNews that features short videos on how deaf people can use mainstream technology, news about captioning Text version of the spoken content of a movie, TV show, or video, displayed on the screen ...

Disney World Adds Portable Captions to Park Attractions News

Disney parks have a good reputation for accommodations for visitors with disabilities, including captioning devices and assistive listening for people with hearing loss and audio description for blind and low vision visitors . Disney ...

The Top 8 Android Apps for People Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing News

Thomsen Young compiled a handy list of 8 top Android Google's operating system for small computers, tablets, and mobile phones. apps Short for "application"; usually a program that runs on a portable device or ...

Top 10 iPhone Apps for People Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing News

Thomsen Young compiled a handy list of the top 10 "most useful" iPhone apps for deaf and hard of hearing consumers. This is what he has to say about them: Purple Communications : Unlike TTY or TDD A device with a ...

Doremi CaptiView: A New Way to Caption Movies in Theatres News

Doremi CaptiView is a small 3-line electronic caption display for movie theatres. It can be inserted into your seat's beverage holder, and receives the captions Text version of the spoken content of a movie, TV show, or video, ...

Sprint's Relay ID Pack News

Sprint has put together a collection of apps Short for "application"; usually a program that runs on a portable device or wireless phone such as an iPhone. , called the Relay ID Pack , specifically for their deaf and hard of ...

Netflix Adds Closed Captioning to Its iPad, iPhone App News

By downloading a free app , Netflix - with expanded closed captioned availability - is now available on the iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. Here's how to find out which Netflix streaming movies have captioning. (Deaf, Hard of ...

ClearCaptions: New Telephone Captioning Service News

ClearCaptions is a new telephone and computer captioning service by Purple Communications. The intent of this service is to provide captioning to hearing-impaired/deaf users, utilizing equipment with "nothing to buy and no service ...

Android Apps for People with Hearing Loss News

Androidzoom is a snazzy new site with an up-to-date collection of Android apps for deaf and hard of hearing users , for functions like chat, sign language learning, and VRS Video Relay Service connects a person using sign language over a ...

New Video Service Can Stream Captions News

Zediva is a new online movie rental service for new movie releases. Closed captioning Text version of the spoken content of a movie, TV show, or video, displayed on the screen and synchronized with the audio. , if available on the ...

Phone Finder News

Phone Scoop has a new Phone Finder - in which you can plug in your preferred features and come up with a short list of phone to consider. Helpful for those looking for specific features related to hearing loss/deafness. (Low Vision, Deaf, ...

Accessibility Benefits of the iPad 2 News

The original iPad includes some powerful accessibility features . Now the iPad 2 adds some more: front- and rear-facing cameras, making the device perfect for video sign language communication (direct or VRS ) and even augmented reality for ...

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