Here's a look at the history of closed captioning rules for television stations in the US. 2015 - The FCC (Federal Communication...

Some of the important years when the BBC made advances in captioning. 1979 - A documentary is the first program to be subtitled on the...

Oscar-Winner Marlee Matlin walked out of the premiere of the film Magazine Dreams at the Sundance Film Festival. Marlee Matlin (Variety...

A tech startup company called Ava that offers live captioning has raised $10 million in funding. Founder and CEO Thibault Duchemin grew...

Vox Media has built what it calls an “immersive transcript” that’s accessible to deaf and hard of hearing audiences. Annu Subramanian,...

AMC Entertainment movie theaters plan to offer open captioning for new movies in every market where it owns theaters. These captions will...

The FCC is fining Pluto TV (owned by ViacomCBS) a whopping $3.5 million for violating accessibility rules through its streaming service....

A UT Austin student working as director of digital strategy for her college newspaper wants to know "why don’t media organizations do...

University of Mississippi graduate Joshua Sisco has filed a lawsuit against the school because its social media are not closed captioned...

A new feature added to the TikTok social media platform this week is auto captions. As content creators can generate subtitles on the...

The Chrome browser will now instantly captions audio and video on the web The Google feature, called Live Captions, has been available on...

Social media is a key part of modern culture and everyday life. Deaf users and creators say the lack of good captioning tools leaves them...