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Use your vote to support the ADA »

The National Coalition for Disability Rights is a nonpartisan nonprofit that does not endorse political candidates.  They are a coalition of national, state and local disability, civil rights and social justice organizations united to protect and promote the human rights of children and adults with physical and mental disabilities.   Today, they released this statement:

WASHINGTON, Oct 31, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ […]

Thank you, Oprah, for your captioned videos. »

As I increasingly turn online for news and entertainment, I am so grateful for those publishers whom make their video content available with captioning.  One such company is Harpo Productions, Oprah’s empire.  Earlier this year, several million viewers participated in Oprah’s webcast with Eckhart Tolle “A New Earth.”  Although the live event did not include captioning, […]

27 Ways to Protect your Hearing »

One side effect of having hearing loss is the tendency to turn things up, way up, so we can hear them. Normal sounds that we don’t control, like a dog barking or a truck passing us on the highway are loud to others, but may be not too loud to us. But, increasing the volume […]

Video Words - Closed Captioning on the Web »

Editor Notes: Sorry, had to remove the playback…
AOL and CNN have a few news videos that offer closed captioning.  Strangely enough, CNN.com doesn’t have caption options on any of its videos and I was unable to find any other news feeds with the CC box on AOL.  
You know what to do:  Go to AOL’s support central, click on Rate This […]