Well Done Sky Television! Thank you for Listening to Us!
Captioning or Subtitles in New Zealand Sky Television in New Zealand did it.  They listened to us, the Deaf and hearing impaired people of New Zealand, and went ahead and captioned 13 of their channels for us.  They did this without any Government funding, and with no legislation in place.  They have my greatest respect and I hope yours as well. […]
Mon, Sep 22 2014
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Survey Findings
Captioning or Subtitles in New Zealand Remember that survey we asked, begged and cajoled you all to fill out? The report has finally been completed and distributed.  If you would like to read the results, then you can just click on the link below… Evidence to support Legislation for Captioning in New Zealand Thanks to all those who took part, without […]
Mon, Sep 22 2014

Healthy and Safety Education and Captioning
Captioning or Subtitles in New Zealand One of the captioning issues in NZ that concerns me greatly is the lack of captions on advertisements that are put out to educate the general public on matters of health and safety.  I am speaking of those advertisements put out by a number of health and government agencies, covering a wide range of issues.  […]
Mon, Sep 22 2014

Well Done Sky Television! Thank you for Listening to Us!
Captioning or Subtitles in New Zealand Sky Television in New Zealand did it.  They listened to us, the Deaf and hearing impaired people of New Zealand, and went ahead and captioned 13 of their channels for us.  They did this without any Government funding, and with no legislation in place.  They have my greatest respect and I hope yours as well. [...]
Wed, Feb 08 2012

Survey Findings
Captioning or Subtitles in New Zealand Remember that survey we asked, begged and cajoled you all to fill out? The report has finally been completed and distributed.
Tue, Sep 20 2011

Healthy and Safety Education and Captioning
Captioning or Subtitles in New Zealand One of the captioning issues in NZ that concerns me greatly is the lack of captions on advertisements that are put out to educate the general public on matters of health and safety.
Sun, Sep 18 2011

History is being made tonight!
Captioning or Subtitles in New Zealand For the first time ever, we're going to get live captions on a sports programme – namely the first match of the Rugby World Cup.  This is on TV1 at 7.30pm tonight.  Well done TVNZ. I know there are a lot of very grateful Deaf and Hearing impaired fans out there.  I am just one [...]
Thu, Sep 08 2011

How Long will it take for Sky Television to Caption their...
Captioning or Subtitles in New Zealand That's a question we're all waiting for an answer to. We've set up a website that does a count up of time passed, a stopwatch, which we'll stop when Sky TV in New Zealand start captioning their programmes. From that website you can share the site to Twitter and/or Facebook to spread the word and [...]
Tue, Sep 06 2011

Stealing for Access
Captioning or Subtitles in New Zealand It’s a sad day when one has to admit that a large number of Deaf and hearing impaired people (including myself), are up in arms over the Governments new law (Section 92a) over file sharing/downloading content off the internet.  You can see the discontent amongst our people on Facebook and other social media sites.  It’s [...]
Tue, Apr 19 2011

Captioning in the UK
Captioning or Subtitles in New Zealand A friend of mine just shared a link with me which I think should be compulsory viewing for everyone interested in captioning. The link explains how captioning is done in England, and it talks of the problems that is experienced with Live Captioning, which is basically a software or technology shortfall at present. You can [...]
Mon, Feb 14 2011

Have you completed our survey?
Captioning or Subtitles in New Zealand The survey is giving us some pretty good results – we love hearing all about your views.
Thu, Dec 09 2010

Sky TV Captioning Developments
Captioning or Subtitles in New Zealand A few months ago, NFD staff along with the Hearing Association President, met with Tony O'Brien from Sky Television. We were promised the outcome of that meeting, and in turn, I promised this information in a previous blog. Earlier this week, the outcome of this meeting was finally shared with us from an unexpected source [...]
Mon, Dec 06 2010

We need your help…. by Robyn Carter & Kellye Bensley
Captioning or Subtitles in New Zealand We have put together an online survey which will take you approximately 8-10 minutes to complete. We need this to go to as many Deaf and hearing impaired New Zealanders as possible to be completed. If your child is deaf, please fill this out on behalf of your child. The link for the survey to [...]
Sun, Nov 21 2010

Something is coming…
Captioning or Subtitles in New Zealand We're going to need your help... So! Watch this space.... It'll arrive on monday!
Thu, Nov 18 2010

It’s all about FAIR access by Robyn Carter
Captioning or Subtitles in New Zealand But we get only 192 hours per week, which is only 8.9%. Is this fair and equitable access to television for us Deaf and Hearing Impaired people in New Zealand?
Fri, Oct 08 2010

I love Subtitles. by Zoe Ferguson
Captioning or Subtitles in New Zealand I love subtitles. If a programme has subtitles, I always put them on to watch it. I always set up subtitles myself on 801. My brother, Elijah, is hearing and he can set up 801 too! When the subtitles are on then I understand what the people are saying. If there is no subtitles I [...]
Fri, Oct 01 2010

Earthquake Day by Kellye Bensley
Captioning or Subtitles in New Zealand Most people in Christchurch were fast asleep when they were given a rude awakening at 4:35am, way too early for their liking. I guess Mother Nature goes by her own timetable and decided to give things a wee bit of a shake up, whether we liked it or not.
Mon, Sep 13 2010

What the Community Wants – by Kellye Bensley
Captioning or Subtitles in New Zealand Because of the lack of captioning, there is a lack of equality. And with the lack of equality, comes a lack of confidence.
Mon, Aug 30 2010

The Big Let-Down on my Return Home – by Alana Best
Captioning or Subtitles in New Zealand The World Rugby Cup must be accessible by everyone, New Zealanders and tourists alike. Therefore you must include the Deaf, deaf, hard-of-hearing, hearing impaired, and other people with disabilities with captioning assistance. Closed captions or subtitles is a necessary technological tool that must be included at this very important event in our host country.
Sun, Aug 22 2010

Access Should be a Given, Not a Gift – by Simon Prast
Captioning or Subtitles in New Zealand In my business, action means action. I call upon my colleagues in the media, on both sides of the camera, to demand 'action' on captioning and rectify this serious oversight of democracy and freedom of information.
Sun, Aug 15 2010

Captioning Sport – by Robyn Carter
Captioning or Subtitles in New Zealand We are hosting the Rugby World Cup soon. Every western country will have the Rugby World Cup available on television, and it will be captioned. YES! Captioned. But not in New Zealand. We the host country, where rugby is our national sport, and our lifeblood, do not caption it for our Deaf and hearing impaired supporters.
Mon, Aug 09 2010

Spoilt for Choice in Canada by Rachel Noble
Captioning or Subtitles in New Zealand I dream of a time in New Zealand that we can have the same access to the range of programmes that others without hearing loss in New Zealand enjoy, and be on a par with other western countries in terms of choice of TV programs to watch with captions.
Sat, Aug 07 2010

Tell You Later – By Kellye Bensley
Captioning or Subtitles in New Zealand There are so many channels on pay television such as Discovery, The History Channel, and National Geographic to name a few. Those channels would be of great benefit to deaf children if they can understand what is going on, and thus expand their knowledge.
Mon, Jul 26 2010

What are you watching on TV?
Captioning or Subtitles in New Zealand That's $88 million dollars folks. And they want the government to provide the captioning machine with taxpayers money!! Greed is so unattractive.
Sun, Jul 11 2010
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Plugging away at the Captioning Issue…
Captioning or Subtitles in New Zealand Meanwhile, while all this is going on, Simon Prast, Auckland Mayoral Candidate, has taken on our cause and has contacted TVNZ Breakfast programme about this. It would be great if they could run the story and get us some publicity...
Mon, Jul 05 2010

TVNZ Captioning – Results of Meeting.
Captioning or Subtitles in New Zealand Without regulations, most broadcasters won't provide captions due to cost.
Mon, Jun 28 2010

Gaining Knowledge….
Captioning or Subtitles in New Zealand In New Zealand, we don't have laws as they do overseas for captioning. The Americans have the American Disability Act which makes captioning compulsory. In Australia there is a law that all prime-time viewing must be captioned. In New Zealand we have nothing.
Thu, Jun 24 2010

From Where I Sit…
Captioning or Subtitles in New Zealand Captioning is not used just by the Deaf community. Most people with any type of hearing impairment uses this captioning service on Teletext page 801. And it's not just Deaf or deaf people that are using it, but also the elderly, people with English as a second language, and I've also heard that people with other disabilities find captions make their viewing much ea...
Tue, Jun 15 2010