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Lots of good things in the IFHOH newsletter, as usual.
http://www.ifhoh.org/ifhohjournal/ifhohjournalfeb2012.pdf
The need for much more inclusion of captioning (subtitling, CART, STT, steno, fast typing, palantype, velotype) is vital to mention also. This is our language too and it’s missing in too many places.
We applaud all the volunteer efforts in all our groups, and step by step, the inclusion of quality speech-to-text shall happen. With your voices too.
CCAC is the place to be for captioning advocacy – report your news to us, and we’ll distribute it to CCAC members, hundreds of them.
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We are asking for the transcript – script – for this short video in French Sign Language. Then we want to see if we can upload the script for complete text (subtitles) here also. Bonne chance!
CCAC invites your company or “friend” sponsorship for the newest CCAC captioning advocacy project – the forthcoming CCAC newsletter.
Your message will reach thousands. A small or larger ad shows your support for the vigorous volunteer energies and captioning advocacy going on in CCAC membership every day!
We also invite any news about current and on-going captioning advocacy from you, your association, organization, or local groups. Submit all captioning advocacy news to our email address below.
Captioning – CART – STT – Subtitles – Palantype – Velotype – Speech to Text – Realtime
Other questions about the new CCAC newsletter? “The Power of Captioning” (c) will be launched in February or March. We will publish 6 to 10 issues in 2012. Get on board with us for inclusion of quality captioning universally!
Every day lives of mega-millions of real people need captioning. The newsletter will have a summary of the months’ CCAC captioning advocacy and membership discussions online, in a readable format. Easy to read, learn, use!
READ ABOUT CCAC:: WWW.CCACAPTIONING.ORG
EMAIL: CCACAPTIONING@GMAIL.COM
Taking this from new article by Jamie Berke on About.com – a popular dot.com online.
From this interview with Jen Bonfilio here: http://deafness.about.com/od/captioning/a/stadium_captioning.htm
Go teams! of all sorts…your favorite sports teams, the teams in and related to CCAC who work on this regularly too, and the teams yet to be created for the Mission – inclusion of quality captioning universally – make it happen and tell us about it.
Teams of providers, teams of advocates, teams of consumers, teams of companies in technology and access that are expanding services and products as we type. We need to collaborate more, even when competition and marketing challenges, sometimes even too many choices (?) are evident. Become invigorated, and keep talking.
An excerpt only from the online article:
Speaking about Stadiums that already have captioning, here’s a beginning listing below, feel free to make it grow!
Q: Is there a directory online anywhere of all stadiums and arenas offering captioning? If not, can you give a few examples of places from around the country?
A: No, I don’t believe a directory exists. Sounds like a good idea for a project! A few examples would be:
What the world needs is – a whole lot more places that are fully accessible for all. In the CCAC, our focus is on equal communication access with inclusion of quality captioning, and today we highlight a company (and person) who is doing what they can to build awareness, and provide services, especially for museums and other cultural venues.
Below is a tidbit from Catharine’s company blog – worth reading more on that site as well, see the blog (and services) from Keen Guides, http://blog.keenguides.com/
Example:
Have you ever stood in front of a piece of very abstract art at a museum, and been like, “Ok. I don’t get it.” Of course you have. And then you look at the small placard below it, and it gives you some explanation, and all of the sudden the abstract colors, shapes, and lines come together in a way that makes sense? Yeah. That’s how I hear.
Well, anyway, it’s how I hear NPR. I learned how to listen to – and understand – podcasts from well-written descriptions about each episode to help me out. Let me explain.
Ok, let’s face MORE >
JUN 1ST, 2011
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CCAC is not a company. We are a two-year-old community of new and seasoned volunteer advocates for inclusion of quality captioning universally. As we begin year three, we seek ideas, energies, supporters, and partners to take the CCAC project forward. Please get in touch soon to discuss collaborations! ccacaptioning@gmail.com
Happy to share this today – best way to do this is to let Shanna (aka lipreadingmom) tell you about it! – from her blog, lipreadingmom.com – please go to http://lipreadingmom.com/2011/12/28/why-are-some-internet-videos-captioned-and-some-arent/
to read that blog and several others related to this.
Want to get involved soon? Email Shanna or ccacaptioning@gmail.com
With thanks to every person who knows that Internet broadcasting needs full equal communication access!
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Do you all know that Court Reporters are important for captioning concerns and advocacy too? Why? Because many choose to get additional training and certification for “realtime” and for captioning and CART services, sorely needed in so many places. We encourage this . The standards of the professions are important too.
Here’s a blog we learned about today, and with permission, we share it with you all here:
December 2011
“I will call you out.”
“If you misrepresent what’s in this plan, we will call you out.” So said President Barack Obama in a speech on health care some years ago. “Know this,” he said. “I won’t stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly as they are. If you misrepresent what’s in this plan, we will call you out. And I will not — I WILL NOT — accept the status quo as a solution. Not this time. Not now.”
Somehow, those words made me think about quality in our profession, especially on the CART/captioning side, and the thousands of hearing-impaired persons who depend on us as their ears for their window on the world. The status quo … doing things a certain way because that’s the way we’ve always done things … has left hearing-impaired people marginalized. Cast off to the side with condescension. They’re not asked if their ADA accommodation is of good enough quality to be helpful to them. In rare instances where they are asked and do complain, they’re told they should be grateful for whatever they’re offered in the way of accommodation, accommodating or not.
This means late-deafened adults may receive American Sign Language interpreting even when their hearing loss is so sudden that they do not know ASL. This means hearing-impaired viewers are left in the dark when television stations use cheap, low-quality computer software programs instead of competent broadcast captioners to caption TV. This means hearing-impaired students are impaired even further when they’re offered a notetaker throwing disjointed concepts at them instead of the full accomodation afforded by a qualified CART provider.
Low-ball contracting practices, corporatization, and commoditization affect our profession. But unskilled, unqualified providers and the fly-by-night agencies they work for will do more damage to the reporting profession than any amount of low-ball contracting, corporatization, or incentive gift-giving practices. But who suffers most from lack of quality? It’s the client.
The level of service for CART/captioning work demands excellent CART and broadcast captioning providers. Near perfection, in my opinion. Anything less is a violation of the requirement of the Americans With Disabilities Act … a violation of the very law that was enacted to protect the hearing-impaired consumer from being taken advantage of. I never want to see that happen.
Many agency owners are happy to squeak by the way they’ve always done things … with The Warm Body Syndrome for their CART consumer. They want to misrepresent to the CART consumer that this is the best we can do, and their last thought is to quality. I’m extremely disturbed when methods such as typewell are offered as full accommodation for a deaf or hard-of-hearing person. I won’t stand for that. Not now, when quality matters more than ever. I won’t permit the same old excuses to keep things as they have been for years. When agencies offer accommodation that is not full accommodation, I will call them out by letting CART consumers know there is something better out there for them. I will call them out by demonstrating the superiority of CART over typewell for hearing-impaired students. I will point out the high price paid for low cost … that price paid by the CART consumer. Rest assured, if you misrepresent, I will call you out.
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Thanks Mary Ann. from her blog, http://maryannpayonk.typepad.com/maryannpayonk/2011/12/we-will-call-you-out.html#comments
Not to replace inclusion of quality cc (full verbatim speech to text), yet an additional feature for millions, check this out….
