Archive for category: Accessibility

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

How to vote if you’re disabled    (2006.01.23)

In which I poll a polling clerk and a polling supervisor about how blind, deaf-blind, deaf, and mobility-impaired people vote

Quest for nightmare tables    (2006.01.17)

The PDF/UA Committee is looking for worst-case scenarios of real-world tables. The purpose? To make the PDF accessibility spec better than reality

How not to achieve 100% captioning    (2005.11.15)

Three-year study shows CBC Television and Newsworld aren’t providing their required 100% captioning

A file format cannot be ‘accessible’    (2005.11.02)

When will blind people stop misinterpreting accessibility of Microsoft Office as accessibility of everything on their computers? A cautionary tale from Massachusetts and ODF

Captioning, fanvids, remixing    (2005.10.31)

Using caption text to find and remix video segments