By Samantha in Entertainment, Activism | 0 Comments
Closed captioning…we love closed captioning. We need closed captioning!!
Increasingly, online video content is becoming integral to our lives streaming shows straight to our desktops and dvrs. Unfortunately, our current legislation does not require captioning to be included in this distribution. And so, it isn’t.
In fact, captioning availability is going backwards. Recently Disney/Pixar stripped their rental […]
By Samantha in Activism, Active Lifestyle, Featured, Prevention, Hearing Loss | 0 Comments
Hearing loss is a serious health hazard for veterans. Consider this:
More than 45,000 vets from Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom have hearing loss.
Of the 300,000 vets from the post 9/11/01 conflict, tinnitus is the #1 disability and hearing loss is #2.
35% of returning troops from Iraq and Afghanistan have hearing loss.
Any decibel above […]
By Samantha in Products, Accessibility, Activism, Featured | 0 Comments
Sprint has a live captioning service available for hard of hearing people whom struggle to hear conversations on the telephone.
Here’s the gist: if you need to make a call, you log in to the CapTel website (once you are registered), input your own telephone number and the number you want to call. In a second, your phone will ring […]
