Children Always Advocate Adorably
March 26, 2017 Comments Off on Children Always Advocate Adorably
Enjoy this one – bravo to all involved. Is BBC listening? Can they hear the need? Mega-millions globally require quality CAPTIONING (subtitles) on all media online, including all the live streams now. Not only sign language users. Millions of other deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing people too – in many situations!
Hope you can open this on VIMEO website: https://vimeo.com/209772831
Hear this – do you have children or grandchildren? Care about quality CAPTIONING? We encourage you to make a 1-2 minute video for the CCAC – email us soon. If you are a professional video maker – tell us. If you are not a pro – fine too. CCACaptioning@gmail.com
CCAC = PLACE TO BE FOR CAPTIONING ADVOCACY
CCACAPTIONING@GMAIL.COM
CCAC YOUTUBE CHANNEL – https://www.youtube.com/user/CCACORG/videos
All media globally, including live streams online, on social media, on broadcasts must have quality captioning. Let’s advocate.
Please volunteer soon!
GUEST BLOGPOSTS INVITED. SEND IT VIA EMAIL TO CCACAPTIONING@GMAIL.COM
HAVE YOUR OWN BLOG – SHOW IT TO US WHEN YOU WRITE ABOUT CAPTIONING OF ANY SORT, SUBTITLES, DISABILITIES, SOCIAL JUSTICE, GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS, LEARNING TO READ, ACCESS AND INCLUSION. CARRY ON!
Welcome 2017 – A Captioning Year
January 4, 2017 Comments Off on Welcome 2017 – A Captioning Year
Happy New Year to all reading! We welcome the new year, and we will welcome all of you who decide to help make 2017 a great year for captioning inclusion.
CCAC is now 7 years old. My oh my – time flies. Much accomplished, much more to do!
We invite you to read the CCAC webpages – soon. CCAC volunteers do so much. Offer so much for an all volunteer official non-profit. We live online. And you are needed now.
Teams will form soon for various good captioning advocacy projects. From revision of the CCAC website to guest blogposts here to social media and fundraising and the Grant Program and more….you are needed too.
EMAIL: CCACAPTIONING@GMAIL.COM
CAPTIONING ADVOCACY NEEDS YOU
October 21, 2016 Comments Off on CAPTIONING ADVOCACY NEEDS YOU
Guess we’ve been very busy -long time since new blogpost – doing, among other things, Captioning Advocacy!
CCAC has strength in numbers – you are needed too. JOIN today. Why not? Email anytime if you have a question about being a member.
CCACAPTIONING@GMAIL.COM
CCACAPTIONING.ORG IS THE WEBSITE
CCAC MISSION – INCLUSION OF QUALITY CAPTIONING UNIVERSALLY
p.s. we welcome guest blogposts about captioning!
REGISTRATION OPEN! CAPTION STUDIES CON AUG 1-2 2016
June 6, 2016 Comments Off on REGISTRATION OPEN! CAPTION STUDIES CON AUG 1-2 2016
THIS IS THE FIRST CONFERENCE OF IT’S KIND! YOU ARE INVITED TO REGISTER NOW AND SEND THIS MESSAGE TO ALL YOUR NETWORKS WHO MAY BE INTERESTED IN CAPTIONING TOO – YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING TO LOVE AND USE CAPTIONING!
All information about the Con is here: CAPTIONSTUDIES.WOU.EDU
It’s Free, all Online, and Captioned too.
REGISTER NOW USING THIS LINK: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1wrt3nZWYz-U_d2Ti3_8DKzr54DTIPMYHiABPNUSzzag/viewform?c=0&w=1
CCAC is very proud to be one of the sponsors of this exciting event and in fact, we are jumping for joy – see you online Augusst 1 and 2. Let’s Talk Captioning!
CCAC IS PLACE 2 B 4 CAPTIONING ADVOCACY
CCACAPTIONING@GMAIL.COM
CCACAPTIONING.ORG
CAPTION STUDIES CONFERENCE! HEAR THIS!
April 4, 2016 § 2 Comments
IT’S HERE! DRUM ROLL! CCAC is very proud to announce the USA’s first CAPTIONING CONFERENCE! All invited to participate online this August 1-2. Stay tuned and see below as information from the source (WOU) spreads on conference webpage, in CCAC Members’ Forum, Social Media, and more. So exciting: http://captionstudies.wou.edu/
MORE:
Caption Studies 2016 Conference Announcement [ http://captionstudies.wou.edu/ ]
The first annual Caption Studies conference in the United States takes place August 1st and 2nd of 2016. Hosted by Western Oregon University, the first conference will feature two days worth of speakers and panels presenting on an array of different caption-related topics—from closed-captioning to captioning research to CART to a caption user focus group. The three strands emphasized at the conference are advocacy, practice, and academic/research. There are presentations from group of stakeholders.
A free virtual conference, i.e. all panels and presentations will be streamed to the web and shown to anyone interested, the conference strives to model best practices for accessible conferences and accessible content online. All videos will be captioned, and all live events will have live, real-time CART captioning.
The conference keynote is Dr. Sean Zdenek, long-time closed caption and accessibility researcher from Texas Tech University. Zdenek’s book, Reading Sounds, was recently released to much support and acclaim.
For more information go to: captionstudies.wou.edu. [http://captionstudies.wou.edu/] captionstudies.com and captionstudiesconference.com both redirect to this same URL.
You can find us at Twitter as @captionstudies. [https://twitter.com/captionstudies]
We plan to use the hashtag: #caption16
The conference Facebook page is here: [https://www.facebook.com/captionstudies/?ref=bookmarks]
If you would like semi-regular announcements regarding the Caption Studies conference, such as when conference registration is open, if and when different speakers or presenters have confirmed, or when more information about 2017 becomes available, watch our Twitter feed. You can also sign up for email notifications here: http://eepurl.com/bWCP0v. All emails on this list will only be used for conference related announcements.
This conference is generously supported by Western Oregon University’s College of Education, Strada Communications, 3 Play Media, and the CCAC.
CaptionStudies17 is tentatively planned to take place face-to-face at Western Oregon University in late July or early August 2017. If you are interested in potentially presenting or sponsoring some part of the conference, please be in touch.
WHAT DO WE DO IN THE CCAC? WE ADVOCATE, EDUCATE, RAISE AWARENESS, PARTICIPATE, COMMUNICATE, COLLABORATE AND INSPIRE! #CAPTIONWORLDNOW
ccacaptioning@gmail.com
Make Noise: Your Voice and Vote Counts!
February 25, 2016 Comments Off on Make Noise: Your Voice and Vote Counts!
NEWEST article asking for your voices to talk to candidates this important election year:
http://hearinghealthmatters.org/hearingviews/2016/captions-will-capture-the-votes-by-lauren-storck/
If not you, who? Access to communications with quality captioning is our right, and the right thing to do.
How can CCAC help you get started? Please read the article and let’s talk.
CCACaptioning.org
CCACaptioning@gmail.com
CCAC Surprises End of 2015
December 18, 2015 Comments Off on CCAC Surprises End of 2015
CCAC was invited this month to talk with three important and very different agencies about our mission, and to share ideas about “inclusion of quality captioning.” This is not a total surprise of course, since we advocate regularly and vigorously for the CCAC mission, yet it’s a good step forward for captioning advocacy to be consulted face-to-face.
Since we celebrate six years of CCAC activity this time of year also (December 19th is the CCAC anniversary date), it is good to know our voices are noticed. Even if inclusion of quality captioning does not move forward at the speeds millions of us would like, it is moving forward. Our advocacy, education, and raising awareness efforts make sense.
CCAC is a grass-roots citizen advocacy movement and we share common concerns for access and inclusion with many others. CCAC’s advocacy mission, “inclusion of quality captioning universally” defines us. CCAC is not however located in the Washington D.C. area (like many long established groups), we are all volunteers, and relatively-speaking, the CCAC is the “new kid” on the captioning advocacy block (of course we’ve been active on this issue and related things for many more years). We “meet” online mainly, every day in many ways, for “group” work important to the CCAC culture – sharing ideas, information, discussion and action online – step by step.
The Surprises:
- This month the President of the CCAC spoke directly with Google.com about YouTube Captioning. We are very pleased to be able to learn from them, and to “tell them our issues!” We want quality CC on all videos ASAP, and we hope our advocacy and some technical advice offered will be useful there. They said it will, and we hope the conversation continues. Fan or crowd captioning is their newest feature for YT videos, and CCAC members contributed good questions and feedback about what seem to be remaining bugs and inefficiency in this newest feature. At the same time, as always, we emphasized how important quality CC as a first thought is, not as an afterthought – and our dedication to “equal communication access” online for all media.
- Next week we will speak (live) to a person in the Department of Transportation (USA) about Air Travel Access. CCAC has been advocating since 2010 for this important concern. Read more on the CCAC webpage for this project-advocacy takes loads of time! http://ccacaptioning.org/captioning-transportation/
- Finally, at least for now, an active CCAC member in Geneva (Switzerland) will meet in person in the new year to discuss a recent WHO survey about assistive devices. Our interest is advocating for the best inclusion of media captioning, and live event captioning also, in any WHO matters and interests as they strive to promote access and inclusion of PWD world-wide. It’s a healthy thing to do.
Raise your voices anyplace you can for communication access. We hope you join and use the CCAC too – to build stronger collaborations. Join the CCAC, find us on social media, and tell others about this blog please.
CCACaptioning.org
CCACaptioning@gmail.com
Please volunteer soon!
CCAC Teams Welcome Volunteers
November 23, 2015 Comments Off on CCAC Teams Welcome Volunteers
Feel like DOING something useful for Captioning inclusion? Join a CCAC Team! Meet others, add your ideas and energy for the mission – Inclusion of Captioning Advocacy Universally.
All MEDIA and LIVE EVENTS need quality Captioning, our language, the world’s language.
Live Events are often now streamed online – not only webinars, also conferences, other meetings. Access via quality captioning for all of these please – ask, educate, raise awareness and ask again.
CCAC Teams each have a focus – one of the several ongoing (or new) CCAC CAPS – captioning advocacy projects. See http://CCACaptioning.org/advocacy for this list of current CAPS.
Please volunteer soon!
Three teams are using Google Hangouts (GH) now – the chat system. Sometimes the whole team is there, live, real time, and sometimes only a few, or even one person who adds her or his input after reading the discussion. It works! Using a gmail address is best.
Interested? Hope so! Email CCACaptioning@gmail.com
Your Photo Please! We Are the CCAC!
November 4, 2015 Comments Off on Your Photo Please! We Are the CCAC!
If you use, need, love and understand why CAPTIONING is our language, mission, and passion for communication equality – send us a photo of you now please.
Informal or formal, any photo we can include publicly in a new CCAC slideshow.
Email to CCACaptioning@gmail.com
WE ARE THE CCAC – from all over the place, all sorts of wonderful captioning advocates who ask, educate, and shout beautifully about an accessible world. We are you, me, and so many others who require quality captioning, universally.
Shall share the link for the slideshow soon. Participate, yes you can! Photo above is newest member of the CCAC – Chris, RN who uses Captioning too.
Celebrate Captioning Happening with the CCAC
February 26, 2015 Comments Off on Celebrate Captioning Happening with the CCAC
CCAC is so busy making captioning happen that we don’t have time to write a new post! Yet we hope you find this short one good enough to re-blog and share in your own networks, newsletters, and more – around the world.
CCAC has awarded funds to three Conferences in recent days so they can include live captioning! Our programs remind conference organizers that access with quality live captioning creates access and inclusion – and it’s vital.
CCAC contributed to a February 2015 huge women’s conference!
Huge screen on left shows live captioning.
And to a March event online with captioning – for a diverse technology group of young folks and others who want to help others enter technology careers.
And just approved a September 2015 event that offers live captioning for a wonderful outdoor week with meetings/group discussion in the evenings (to be captioned, with CCAC funds contributing).
More about these events and the two CCAC programs here: contribute and participate! Read http://ccacaptioning.org/ccac-sponsorship-for-cart-a-new-captioning-advocacy-program/
CCAC speaks captioning!
http://CCACaptioning.org – the place 2 b 4 captioning advoacy
email CCACaptioning@gmail.com
Making captioning happen!
Special THANKS to all who contribute and also join the CCAC. See webpages.
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