Bionic Ear Blog

Klatsch: Choosing Conferences to Attend
Bionic Ear Blog Image by Nick Sherman via Flickr So many conferences, so little travel budget. How do you decide? The last few conferences I've attended are sxsw interactive and Texas PTA's, both in Austin, of course. (The only place I've been go outside of the Dallas / Fort Worth area is Austin in almost 10 years. Sad, I [...]
Sat, Apr 24 2010

Links: 3 January 2009
Bionic Ear Blog Lots of things to report courtesy Bill Creswell [@grwebguy, who should be greatccguy]. The Year in Captions in 2009 Closed-Captions Missing from Several On Demand Movies 17 Misconceptions about People with Hearing Loss University of Arizona launches a class to...
Sun, Jan 03 2010

NCAM and Apple Publish "Creating Accessible iTunes U...
Bionic Ear Blog From Media Access Group at WGBH The Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media at WGBH (NCAM) has written guidelines for content providers who would like to create accessible iTunes U media via captions, subtitles and audio...
Wed, Nov 11 2009

Marlee Matlin and the Family Guy Crew
Bionic Ear Blog Matlin had a guest appearance on Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show. You can find her part around 14 minutes into the show. Her sign off cracked me up. She has an interview about her appearance...
Tue, Nov 10 2009

United Nations Enable Factsheet on Persons with Disabilities
Bionic Ear Blog “Around 10 per cent of the world’s population, or 650 million people, live with a disability. They are the world’s largest minority.” - UN Enable Facesheet [Link: Laura Carlson] Isn’t that reason enough to make accommodations? Caption videos? Do voice...
Sat, Nov 07 2009

HLAA Testifies Before Congress on Emergency Alerting Issues
Bionic Ear Blog From Deafnetwork By Lise Hamlin Director of Public Policy and State Development October 2, 2009 “This is NOT a test: Will the Nation’s Emergency Alert System Deliver the President’s Message to the Public?” That was the topic of a 3...
Thu, Oct 08 2009

NAD Calls out Netflix on Captions
Bionic Ear Blog From DeafNetwork. On September 9, 2009, the National Association of the Deaf requested that Netflix provide a captioned version of The Wizard of Oz movie that Netflix made available online, for free, for everyone on October 3, 2009. Netflix disregarded...
Thu, Oct 08 2009

Captioning Videos Does Matter
Bionic Ear Blog Jen Rohrig and I have something in common. We just avoid videos online because we know the chances of them having captions are slim. The captions on a recent TV show were muddled (cut off sentences, combined words for non-sensical...
Fri, Sep 11 2009

HR 3101: Internet Captioning
Bionic Ear Blog Congress is working on HR 3101 known as the “21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2009”, which would require making the internet more accessible using closed-captioning, real-time texting and video description. NY Daily News reports, “The new bill...
Fri, Sep 04 2009

Disability Style Guide
Bionic Ear Blog Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication’s National Center on Disability and Journalism provides a style guide that explains the common terms related to disabilities and their usage. The style guide points which items follow the...
Fri, Aug 28 2009

Beward Scam Targets Deaf
Bionic Ear Blog Just got the following email — brilliant. They’re targeting the deaf. Because of their ability to not only identify me as a deaf person, but they also mention “Texas” (my home state). They mention National Association for the Deaf (NAD)....
Sun, Aug 23 2009

Will Mozilla Blow It on Captioning?
Bionic Ear Blog Joe Clark, accessibility advocate extraordinaire, posted “Will Moz blow it on captioning?” I don’t know what’s the right answer. But so many organizations do it differently, it’d be near impossible to have a standard for everyone that’s easy to use....
Sat, Aug 01 2009

Netflix and Captions
Bionic Ear Blog I heard the news on Twitter from an unexpected source: @marleematlin. I happened to browse Twitter and caught her tweet. It’s great to have someone with her name speaking out about Netflix’s lack of captions on streamed movies. Like it...
Sat, Jun 13 2009