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Margaret Downs, a voice writer/captioner, graduated with an associate degree from the court reporting and captioning program at Cuyahoga Community College in December of 2011. Six months later, she ...

When people think of accessibility and assistive technologies, the images conjured up most often are of disabilities like blindness or deafness or colorblindness. Wheelchair users, amputees, and ...

Closed captioning is valuable for TV broadcasters, OTT platforms, and many other businesses because it makes their content accessible to a broader audience. Besides that, closed captioning helps TV ...

The other night, my hubby and I snuggled down to have some quiet time in front of the TV when it occurred to us that the closed captioning feature was activated on one of the channels. As we fiddled ...

Free captioning is provided on calls and answering machine messages Actual people are involved in the captioning process Accuracy of transcripts is decent but imperfect NEW YORK — Making out what is ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- A TV captioning service has apologized for misidentifying "New Girl" star Zooey Deschanel (ZOH'-ee deh-shuh-NEHL') as one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects on a Texas news ...