DECEMBER 04, 2007
Press Release
TOMHARKIN.COM PARTNERS WITH PROJECTREADON.COM TO PROVIDE CLOSED
CAPTIONING OF WEB VIDEO TO DISABLED
Harkin campaign becomes the first Senate campaign to use innovative
service to provide disabled persons with access to online video.
Des Moines, IA Senator Tom Harkin’s campaign website launched a new
service at http://www.tomharkin.com/closed-captioned-video
to make the campaign’s online video accessible to those with hearing
disabilities through an innovative closed-captioning program provided
by http://www.ProjectReadON.com
.
A longtime champion for persons with disabilities, Senator Harkin
authored the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990 to protect
the civil rights of more than 54 million Americans with physical and
mental disabilities.
The Internet has been instrumental in bringing our democracy closer
to the people and it is our duty as Americans to ensure that that
those with disabilities can have full use of the technology, said
Senator Harkin. The recent CNN/YouTube debates illustrated the
effectiveness of online video and I am proud to be partnering with
Project readON to provide technology that helps to give Americans
with disabilities an equal opportunity to engage in our democracy.
Project readON is the web’s leading and most innovative
closed-captioning service that works toward a single goal of making
online media content available to all by giving users the power to
decide exactly what videos they want captioned and by giving
webmasters an innovative and easy to use caption player to install on
their websites.
When Senator Harkins office contacted us I can honestly say that
this was perhaps the highest point in our professional life of
working in the closed captioning industry. To be sought out by the
person that wrote the very act that spawned our industry is, to say
the least, an honor. We look forward to contributing to online video
captioning becoming the norm across the web, and its a great
personal pleasure to be a part of Senator Harkins online video
message as he takes the lead in that effort! — Mateo Gutierrez,
co-founder of Project readON.
The campaign will continue to update and add additional
closed-captioned videos to this innovative service. For more
information regarding Project readON’s innovative services and
technology please visit, http://www.projectreadon.com
or contact Mateo Gutierrez at [email protected]
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