Amazon accused of noncompliance with video captioning rules Deaf and hard of hearing consumer groups accuse Amazon of not captioning streaming videos in compliance with the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act By Phil Johnson January 02, 2013 Note:…
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Web TV needs to have captions starting next month, the FCC rules
Web TV needs to have captions starting next month, the FCC rules By Janko Roettgers August 21, 2012 Deaf and hard-of-hearing web video viewers have long pressed for a faster adoption of closed captioning, and it looks like the FCC…
Two Deaf-Related Books by Cooper Nickerson
Books: The Lost Deaf Children and other stories, by Cooper Nickerson The Lost Deaf Children and Other Stories, by Cooper Nickerson (Self-published, 266 pages, $19.95 softcover) — Cooper Nickerson offers a different twist on deafness. The Waterloo writer veers away…
Book: Flying To The Light By Elyse Salpeter (Deaf Character)
Flying To The Light By Elyse Salpeter Hi there, My name is Elyse Salpeter and I’m a writer with Cool Well Press. My new novel called FLYING TO THE LIGHT is a young adult thriller and was just released digitally…
Book: Burn Down the Ground by Kambri Crews (CODA author)
Burn Down the Ground book Kambri Crews (CODA author) BURN DOWN THE GROUND: A MEMOIR by Kambri Crews — An unflinching, emotional memoir by the hearing daughter of two deaf parents, about the rampant dysfunction of her rural Texas childhood…
Survey on emergency communications and people with disabilities
Survey on emergency communications and people with disabilities WEBSITE: http://www.wirelessrerc.org/news/take-the-2010-Emergency-Communications-survey.html Good Afternoon Colleagues: The Director of FEMA’s Office of Disability Integration and Coordination, Marcie Roth, would like to the following information with you regarding a research project on the use…