CCAC Celebrates 25 Years of the ADA
July 25, 2015 Comments Off on CCAC Celebrates 25 Years of the ADA
CCAC SAYS SPECIAL THANKS TO 25 CCAC MEMBERS FOR THEIR “YES” TO CELEBRATE 25 YEARS OF THE ADA – KUDOS TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED! (Actually, 26 names as of today).
Tomorrow, July 26 is the actual day of the ADA’s 25th anniversary – since signed into law. May the next 5 years bring us as much progress – we can do it! Access and inclusion. Nothing without us.
#CaptiontheWorld
CCAC Mission: Inclusion of Quality Captioning Universally
Join us – see http://CCACaptioning.org – strength in numbers – fee waived if a hardship for anyone
CCACaptioning@gmail.com
Hot Off the Press! Get your copy of “You Don’t Have to be Deaf to Love Captioning”
July 20, 2015 Comments Off on Hot Off the Press! Get your copy of “You Don’t Have to be Deaf to Love Captioning”
http://tinyurl.com/nw2vqpm is the place
order for yourself and others
great to sell at meetings
show to your networks please –
doctors
libraries
town halls
hearing loss and deaf groups
schools
you name it
Hope you enjoy it!
CCAC – the place 2 B 4 captioning advocacy
The most fun you can have with a steno machine…
July 15, 2015 Comments Off on The most fun you can have with a steno machine…
A provider extraordinare talks about Stadium Captioning – thanks Jade, from CCAC – the place 2 B 4 captioning advocacy
http://CCACaptioning.org invites the world to join us soon!
#captiontheworld
Introducing AccessibleUX.org
July 7, 2015 Comments Off on Introducing AccessibleUX.org
Happy to spread the words here – Captioning is a11y (access) and ux (usability) and as many of you know, CCAC aims to be supportive of access and inclusion for all (even with our focus and passion for the CCAC mission – inclusion of quality captioning universally). Best wishes to this new CoP (community of practice). Hey, some might call the CCAC a CoP also :-).
Welcome to AccessibleUX.org, a community of practice joining accessibility and user experience.
Why accessible UX?
Our focus is on people with disabilities and doing what we can to create successful digital experiences for as many people as possible regardless of disability.
The benefits of accessible UX design are felt more widely—people using mobile devices, people who experience situational impairments (for example due to a noisy environments or stress), people who have limited literacy in the language of the site or application, people using low-bandwidth connections.
A successful experience is ultimately what people with disabilities need and want, just like everyone else. Task completion, goal achievement—this goes beyond accessibility as an exercise in technical compliance (not that that isn’t a valuable goal to support accessible UX design).
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities reminds us that information and communication technology has enormous potential to reduce the social and economic exclusion experienced…
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Why Don’t the Media Care About Hearing Loss? or Captioning?
July 7, 2015 Comments Off on Why Don’t the Media Care About Hearing Loss? or Captioning?
Why Don’t the Media Care About Hearing Loss?.
Good question!
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We welcome comments and discussion here, and invite same in the CCAC forum online – Join the CCAC to keep up to date with what’s happening among hundreds of Captioning advocates globally.
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