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Marlee Matlin Talks about her Sundance Walkout
Oscar-Winner Marlee Matlin walked out of the premiere of the film Magazine Dreams at the Sundance Film Festival. Marlee Matlin (Variety...
Jan 25, 20231 min read

Live Captioning Company gets $10m in funding
A tech startup company called Ava that offers live captioning has raised $10 million in funding. Founder and CEO Thibault Duchemin grew...
May 5, 20221 min read

Vox Media offers a visual way to experience podcasts
Vox Media has built what it calls an “immersive transcript” that’s accessible to deaf and hard of hearing audiences. Annu Subramanian,...
Oct 22, 20211 min read

Movie Chain expanding captions at its theaters
AMC Entertainment movie theaters plan to offer open captioning for new movies in every market where it owns theaters. These captions will...
Oct 21, 20211 min read

Streaming Service Gets multimillion dollar captioning fine
The FCC is fining Pluto TV (owned by ViacomCBS) a whopping $3.5 million for violating accessibility rules through its streaming service....
Oct 11, 20211 min read

3 ways news organizations can improve accessibility right now
A UT Austin student working as director of digital strategy for her college newspaper wants to know "why don’t media organizations do...
Aug 30, 20211 min read

Deaf Student Sues Univ of Miss over captioning
University of Mississippi graduate Joshua Sisco has filed a lawsuit against the school because its social media are not closed captioned...
May 10, 20211 min read

TikTok adds auto-captions
A new feature added to the TikTok social media platform this week is auto captions. As content creators can generate subtitles on the...
Apr 7, 20211 min read

Google adds Real-Time Captioning to the Chrome Browser
The Chrome browser will now instantly captions audio and video on the web The Google feature, called Live Captions, has been available on...
Mar 18, 20211 min read

Deaf content creators want improved accessibility
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...
Mar 15, 20211 min read