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Curtis Pride Brings Big League Game to Gallaudet
Bionic Ear Curtis Pride, former professional baseball player who happens to be deaf, is coaching Galludet's baseball team. A former Gallaudet student returned at age 30 as a pitcher because of Pride. Read the inspiring story at USA Today.
Wed, Aug 11 2010

YouTube Auto-Captioning
Bionic Ear Image via Wikipedia A New Meme Is Brewing: YouTube CaptionFail. This is one of those situations where you wonder is it good to have captioning even though a lot of it is messed up or no captioning. I tried to autocaption two of my previously captioned videos. I took off the captions and let YouTube [...]
Sat, Jul 31 2010

FCC Announces New Closed Captioned Complaint Rules
Bionic Ear Image via Wikipedia Source: Deafnetwork On Friday, Feb. 19, 2010, two important new closed captioning rules were published in the Federal Register and went into effect. The new rules require immediate attention by video programming distributors — including broadcast television stations — to ensure that they respond promptly to viewer complaints regarding c...
Sat, Jul 31 2010

Links: Captioning, Olympics and 508
Bionic Ear STC AccessAbility SIG has two great articles, What is Unclear About Captioning and Olympian Anger — Is It So Hard to Remember Accessibility (amen!). More on Vancouver Olympic Websites from 456 Berea St. Mike Paciello provides a short update on the Section 508 / Section 255 Guidelines. Thanks to Laura Carlson for all the links. [...]
Sat, Jul 31 2010

YouTube Auto-Captioning
Bionic Ear Image via WikipediaA New Meme Is Brewing: YouTube CaptionFail. This is one of those situations where you wonder is it good to have captioning even though a lot of it is messed up or no captioning. I tried to autocaption...
Wed, Mar 17 2010

YouTube Auto-Captioning
Bionic Ear Image via WikipediaA New Meme Is Brewing: YouTube CaptionFail. This is one of those situations where you wonder is it good to have captioning even though a lot of it is messed up or no captioning. I tried to autocaption...
Thu, Mar 11 2010

Links: Captioning, Olympics and 508
Bionic Ear STC AccessAbility SIG has two great articles, What is Unclear About Captioning and Olympian Anger -- Is It So Hard to Remember Accessibility (amen!). More on Vancouver Olympic Websites from 456 Berea St. Mike Paciello provides a short update on...
Sat, Mar 06 2010

Links: Captioning, Olympics and 508
Bionic Ear STC AccessAbility SIG has two great articles, What is Unclear About Captioning and Olympian Anger -- Is It So Hard to Remember Accessibility (amen!). More on Vancouver Olympic Websites from 456 Berea St. Mike Paciello provides a short update on...
Fri, Mar 05 2010

FCC Announces New Closed Captioned Complaint Rules
Bionic Ear Image via WikipediaSource: Deafnetwork On Friday, Feb. 19, 2010, two important new closed captioning rules were published in the Federal Register and went into effect. The new rules require immediate attention by video programming distributors -- including broadcast television stations...
Wed, Mar 03 2010

FCC Announces New Closed Captioned Complaint Rules
Bionic Ear Image via WikipediaSource: Deafnetwork On Friday, Feb. 19, 2010, two important new closed captioning rules were published in the Federal Register and went into effect. The new rules require immediate attention by video programming distributors -- including broadcast television stations...
Mon, Mar 01 2010

Olympics Continue to Falter with Web Site
Bionic Ear Image via WikipediaDoes it ever end? Apparently, the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver has not learned anything from the Olympic-sized accessibility problems of the past. [Joe Clark provides the details]( [link]
Fri, Feb 26 2010

Two Difference Experiences in Talking to Children
Bionic Ear Image via Wikipedia I thought I had blogged this story, but only found bits and pieces. So here’s the whole story as my daughter remembers it. I’d like to think that I was a unique individual from birth. I learned,...
Mon, Feb 15 2010

Hearing Aid Tax Credit
Bionic Ear Image via Wikipedia From Hearing Aid Tax Credit web site: What would the Hearing Aid Assistance Tax Credit Act do? And, what are the differences in the House and Senate legislation? The bill in the House of Representatives (H.R. 1646)...
Mon, Feb 08 2010

Employees with Disabilities Think outside of the box daily
Bionic Ear Who Are You Hiring in 2010? Thinking About Diversity in Another Way is a fabulous article that looks at hiring trends and thinking beyond the label. See Think Beyond the Label to learn how you can evolve your workforce. The...
Wed, Jan 27 2010

Cowboys Stadium Kicks off New Assistive Service
Bionic Ear No matter how you feel about the Dallas Cowboys — you have to give them credit. From Deaf Network of Texas. Softeq Development Corporation has implemented DURATEQ Live with Intelligent Access mobile captioning, audio description, and assistive listening service at...
Mon, Jan 25 2010

Cowboys Stadium Kicks off New Assistive Service
Bionic Ear No matter how you feel about the Dallas Cowboys — you have to give them credit. From Deaf Network of Texas. Softeq Development Corporation has implemented DURATEQ Live with Intelligent Access mobile captioning, audio description, and assistive listening service at...
Thu, Jan 21 2010

17 Misconceptions about People with Hearing Loss
Bionic Ear 17 Misconceptions about People with Hearing Loss shares great information answering many common questions I get from people. Some are afraid to ask the questions in fear of insulting someone. But I welcome them. Here I share my responses to...
Tue, Jan 12 2010

Links: 10 December 2009
Bionic Ear Laura Carlson provides two great links in her long-time excellent resource, Web Design References. I don’t know how long I’ve been reading it… but most certainly over five years. Accessible Web Design provides US disability statistics: Measurement and sources. Jesblog...
Fri, Dec 11 2009

Resources for Texans with Disabilities to Transition to...
Bionic Ear Lots of resources from DeafNetwork. Going To College [link] This new website contains information about living college life with a disability. It is designed for high school students. The site provides video clips, activities, and resources that can help them...
Tue, Dec 08 2009

Resources for Texans with Disabilities to Transition to...
Bionic Ear Lots of resources from DeafNetwork. Going To College [link] This new website contains information about living college life with a disability. It is designed for high school students. The site provides video clips, activities, and resources that can help them...
Tue, Dec 08 2009

Livestream Announces Live Subtitling Service
Bionic Ear Livestream, in partnership with PLYmedia, now offers live subtitling service for live streaming events. It’s not cheap at $850 for three hours of live captioning, but it’s an option. How many users can afford it considering many use the free...
Tue, Dec 01 2009

Google to Autocaption YouTube Videos
Bionic Ear Google has unveiled speech recognition technology to automatically add captions to many videos on YouTube. The technology will also allow users to automatically translate the captions into 51 languages. Google introduced another service called “auto-timing” that allows users uploading videos...
Thu, Nov 19 2009

Google to Autocaption YouTube Videos
Bionic Ear Google has unveiled speech recognition technology to automatically add captions to many videos on YouTube. The technology will also allow users to automatically translate the captions into 51 languages. Google introduced another service called “auto-timing” that allows users uploading videos...
Thu, Nov 19 2009

Make Video Accessible, Localized, Mobile and Searchable by...
Bionic Ear Great tutorial that uses Opera Dragonfly and Opera Mobile 10 from iheni [Link: Laura Carlson] More goodness from @iheni: WCAG Trip-A: “Accessibiltiy as an Afterthought” More evidence screenreader usage is shifting via @jaredwsmith: “Lower your prices or I’ll switch to...
Fri, Nov 13 2009

Marlee Matlin and the Family Guy Crew
Bionic Ear 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 “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...
Fri, Nov 06 2009

The Miracle Worker Revival Comes to Broadway
Bionic Ear We know The Miracle Worker is a wonderful play about Helen Keller. We’ve come a long way since the 1962 movie starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke. Deaf actors have landed more roles even several were the stars of their...
Sat, Oct 31 2009

Index of Captioned Videos
Bionic Ear If you’re like me, you search for captioned video on a per site basis. For example, you use Hulu’s cc only caption feature, Google Video’s show captioned videos only feature and YouTube’s “closed captioned” type feature. Even these search tools...
Tue, Oct 27 2009

Index of Captioned Videos
Bionic Ear If you’re like me, you search for captioned video on a per site basis. For example, you use Hulu’s cc only caption feature, Google Video’s show captioned videos only feature and YouTube’s “closed captioned” type feature. Even these search tools...
Tue, Oct 27 2009

Signs for Countries around the World
Bionic Ear From Deafnetwork.com Do you get tired of fingerspelling country names? Have you ever searched online for country name-signs but can’t find what you’re looking for? Problem solved! Check out www.aslresource.net This website serves as a resource for those seeking to...
Fri, Oct 16 2009

Closed-Captioned Movie Trailers
Bionic Ear After seeing Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, it got me thinking there has to be a place online to view many subtitled trailers in one place. Within a few minutes, I found [link] CaptionFish has subtitled trailers for the...
Wed, Oct 07 2009

HLAA Testifies Before Congress on Emergency Alerting Issues
Bionic Ear 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...
Wed, Oct 07 2009

NAD Calls out Netflix on Captions
Bionic Ear 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...
Tue, Oct 06 2009

New York Mets Deaf and Hard of Hearing Awareness Day
Bionic Ear Date: Saturday, October 3, 2009 at 1:10pm New York Mets vs. Houston Astros A pre-game ceremony at home plate will honor key community supporters. Each person will receive a Citi Field Inaugural Season Scroll Pen (with advance purchase through this...
Wed, Sep 16 2009

Captioning Videos Does Matter
Bionic Ear 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 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

Free Tools for Captioning YouTube Videos
Bionic Ear Terrill Thompson of University of Washington has a great post detailing free tools to caption YouTube videos and reviews some of the applications. I’ve used CaptionTube to do my video. CapScribe: Mac and Firefox CaptionTube: web-based dotSub: web-based Easy YouTube...
Sat, Aug 08 2009

Free Tools for Captioning YouTube Videos
Bionic Ear Terrill Thompson of University of Washington has a great post detailing free tools to caption YouTube videos and reviews some of the applications. I’ve used CaptionTube to do my video. CapScribe: Mac and Firefox CaptionTube: web-based dotSub: web-based Easy YouTube...
Fri, Aug 07 2009

Will Mozilla Blow It on Captioning?
Bionic Ear 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....
Fri, Jul 31 2009

Text to Speech with TextAloud
Bionic Ear I don’t forget other people have different challenges from the deaf. Just received a note about TextAloud, a text reader solution that costs $30. TextAloud software translates any written text into speech including web sites,emails, documents and PDF files. TextAloud...
Thu, Jul 23 2009

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Trailer
Bionic Ear Here’s the link to view the closed-captioned trailer of the sixth Harry Potter movie. [link] Wonder when a captioned version of the movie will reach the Dallas area. Definitely not next week....
Tue, Jul 14 2009

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Trailer
Bionic Ear Here’s the link to view the closed-captioned trailer of the sixth Harry Potter movie. [link] Wonder when a captioned version of the movie will reach the Dallas area. Definitely not next week....
Fri, Jul 10 2009

Netflix and Captions
Bionic Ear 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

Fishing for Movies with Captionfish
Bionic Ear You may have seen Fomdi, a web site that helps you locate captioned movies (either open caption or rear window) by zip code and how far the theaters are from your home. Fomdi has a Google search-like interface. It provides...
Wed, May 27 2009

Defensive Situations
Bionic Ear Amazing Race’s Luke responded to a question that confirmed that some deaf people (me included) tend to be more defensive than the average person. Here’s the interview response I’m talking about: The deaf community has responded very positively. They were...
Thu, May 14 2009

Defensive Situations
Bionic Ear Amazing Race’s Luke responded to a question that confirmed that some deaf people (me included) tend to be more defensive than the average person. Here’s the interview response I’m talking about: The deaf community has responded very positively. They were...
Wed, May 13 2009

Designing for Accessibility Links
Bionic Ear Laura Carlson provides loads of links to great articles on accessibility in web design. Want to share them with you. Create Your Own Accessibility Statement: “An accessibility statement has two basic functions. Firstly, it presents clear information about the target...
Fri, May 08 2009

Minsinterpreting: Is It Just Me?
Bionic Ear OK, sometimes I feel like I should learn how to create a neutral look on my face and talk as little as possible. Or else someone misinterprets a perfectly friendly or innocent comment or look for something negative. My famous...
Tue, May 05 2009

I'm Deaf, I'm Not Ignoring You
Bionic Ear I remember in the ’80s when pins were popular and full of Valley Girl talk. One popular pin was “I’m not deaf, I’m ignoring you.” I had one as it made for a good laugh. Paul (hubby) was talking to...
Thu, Apr 30 2009

CaptionTube: YouTube Captioning
Bionic Ear Mashable has a post on CaptionTube, a service that makes it easier for users to add captions to their YouTube videos. CaptionTube requires a Google account (I think many of us have this by now). I tried out the service...
Mon, Apr 20 2009