News on Captioning

Tuesday, October 12th 2010 The U.S. House of Representatives passed the 21st Century Communications & Video Accessibility Act of 2010 which requires telecom equipment used to make calls over the Internet to be compatible with hearing aids, provides for captioning on new TV programs online, and mandates that remote controls have a button or similar mechanism to easily access the closed captioning on broadcast and pay TV.

Monday, August 2nd 2010 A free mobile captioning telephone solution is available from Hamilton Relay for use on your BlackBerry smartphone.

Friday, May 28th 2010 A new bill has been introduced to make the Internet more accessible for the deaf or blind, requiring smartphones to be hearing aid-compatible, online streaming television content to include closed captioning and video descriptions, and video devices including DVRs and MP3 players to support closed captioning.

Wednesday, May 26th 2010 A recent and unanimous, three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires closed-captioning access in movie theaters.

Saturday, March 20th 2010 On Friday, February 19, 2010, HLAA along with other consumer and industry representatives attended a meeting of the Digital Closed Captioning & Video Description Technical...

Thursday, March 4th 2010 SignOn: A Sign Language Interpreting Resource, Inc., (SignOn), a Seattle-based corporation, and Alternative Communication Services, LLC, (ACS), of Illinois announce a...

Wednesday, December 2nd 2009 Mountain View, Calif. - In the first major step toward making millions of videos on YouTube accessible to deaf and hearing-impaired people,

Tuesday, February 10th 2009 NPR to Receive Stevie Wonder "Vision Free Award" at CES Captioned, Braille, and Radio Reading Service Radios will Serve Millions of Hearing and Visually Disabled Worldwide;...

Monday, December 1st 2008 Sprint Nextel has announced efforts to adapt its services for the hearing loss community. The carrier has launched Sprint WebCapTel On the Go, a no charge mobile Web-based...

Tuesday, March 11th 2008 Features Include Original Shows, New Personalities, Easy-to-Use Interface, Premier Partner Content, plus New Ad Format for CNETs Marketing Partners SanFrancisco February 2008...

Saturday, June 2nd 2007 Raise Your Hand for Better Hearing! Its never too late to get your hearing assessed, learn about your options and start improving. Some hearing loss is preventable, and most...

Monday, May 7th 2007 Company Offers the Only Spanish Video Relay Service with Professionally Rated Spanish-Speaking Interpreters Salt Lake City, UT-- March 26, 2007Sorenson Communications(TM), the...

Monday, January 22nd 2007 Bethesda, MD - December 22, 2006-- In October 2005 the Hearing Loss Association of America petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to include Internet-enabled...

Thursday, October 5th 2006 On Wed. Sept 13, 2006, the FCC issued one of the worst decisions it has ever issued on closed captioning. The Order is on the web site shown below. Basically the order grants two...

Monday, August 21st 2006 Wednesday, July 19, 2006: The New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) announced that beginning January 2007, PSC will provide Captioned Telephone relay service for the two...

Monday, June 19th 2006 Rochester, NY Verizon Wireless, operator of the nations most reliable wireless network, has launched a new calling plan developed specifically for the deaf and co...

Monday, January 9th 2006 On January 1, 2006, Arizona Relay Service, a division of the Arizona Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (ACDHH), will begin providing qualified Arizona residence with...

Thursday, December 1st 2005 November 14, 2005 The FCC released a notice requesting comments on a petition for a rulemaking to require captioned telephone relay service and internet telephone service....

Monday, October 31st 2005 Dedication to closed captioning lauded by deaf communityOctober 1, 2005 -- The Weather Channel, long dedicated to deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers, will increase the amount of...

Thursday, September 22nd 2005 Federal law mandates that all new programming be closed captioned by January 2006National association representing broadcast captioners says shortage of trained professionals...

Monday, April 11th 2005 DENVER March 28, 2005 Three talented students were honored on Friday, March 21, 2005, by Cochlear Americas for their outstanding accomplishments. Timothy J. Brandau, Taylor McClelland and Lori Mette were awarded the third annual Graeme Clark Cochlear Scholarship, a unique grant open to Cochlear Nucleus implant recipients. The Graeme Clark Scholarship Foundations fund is intended to provide college age students with tuition assistance.

Tuesday, January 13th 2004 Cochlear Americas today announced the winners of the second annual Graeme Clark Cochlear Scholarship, a unique award open to Cochlear Nucleus cochlear implant recipients. The Graeme Clark Cochlear Scholarship Foundation is a fund intended to provide college age students with tuition assistance. The winners are: Dmity Kashlev, Cami Noorda, Caitlin Parton and JoAnna Waldhour. DENVER - January 2004

Tuesday, March 4th 2003 Los Angeles, CA - INSIGHT CINEMA is pleased to announce that Century Theatres has added three new theater locations in Northern California and one in Southern California to the...

Wednesday, February 19th 2003 InSight Cinema announces that open captioned presentation of Twentieth Century Fox's DAREDEVIL will be released to coincide with the regular nationwide release. They are plea...

Tuesday, February 11th 2003 LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - Honoring its commitment to provide outstanding experiences for guests with disabilities, the Walt Disney World Resort has announced it plans to expand...