Archive for category: Captioning

How not to achieve 100% captioning (parliamentary version)    (2006.06.13)

In which I am quoted in an industry newsletter

How not to attain 100% captioning (DVD version)    (2006.06.02)

A proposed settlement to a lawsuit claiming that DVDs marked as captioned did not actually contain captioned bonus materials is a bad deal and should be opposed. Here’s why

Luncheon with the gutted    (2006.05.13)

Photos from luncheon with the fired captioners of WGBH

Yet more on CBC captioning    (2006.05.05)

In which I publish a 12,900-word response to CBC about its failure to provide 100% captioning

What a feeling    (2006.03.29)

When a captioner hates his or her job, what does he or she say to his or her husband?

The freakonomics of captioning errors    (2006.03.15)

How do you count captioning errors? What if it’s actually impossible?

Notes from FCC interventions    (2006.03.09)

Telecommunications for the Deaf, Inc. asked for changes to requirements for captioning quality, among other things. What were the responses?

Gutted    (2006.03.05)

After WGBH and NCI gutted one office each of their captioning operations, let me just ask you a question: Are you sure you want to emerge victorious in a race to the bottom?

Why don’t deaf people care about captioning quality?    (2006.02.24)

Four reasons