YouTube Video – Still Growing Fast!

• Bill Stark, Director of the Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP) noted recently that the amount of video uploaded to YouTube is 35 hours per minute. That breaks out to 2,100 hours uploaded every 60 minutes, or 50,400 hours uploaded to YouTube every day.  See more fascinating data at: http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/11/great-scott-over-35-hours-of-video.html

• Captioning YouTube Videos (Debbie Jones, NVRC’s Resource/Technology Specialist,  has a blog post with information on captioning YouTube videos.)

Information about Television, Internet and Cinema Captioning:

• NVRC wants to know your favorite Quality TV Captioning
• Cinemark and ALDA Announce Movie Theater Captioning Agreement
Berkeley-based nonprofit sues CNN.com for not captioning online videos

Information about Telephone Captioning Services:

• Hamilton Relay Now Provides Captioned Telephone Services in VA
• Online Newspaper in American Sign Language

Information about Captioned Radio:

• Help us reach 200 signatures to support funding for captioned radio
• Update on support for completion of captioned radio
• Radio Captioning Technology Debuts in Fort Mitchell
• International Captioned Radio Standard Adopted by ITU

Current News on Captioning 

• February  15, 2012 – Captioned Program on Executive Order 9066, Japanese American Soldiers and Children…(read more)
• February  15, 2012 -  University of KY Settles Suit for Captioning of Football Games…(read more)
• February 14, 2012  – GLAD vs CNN.com Captioned Video/ASL Update…(read more)
• February 14, 2012 – Read Captions Across America on March 2, 2012…(read more)
• January 31, 2012 – From our California Friends: GLAD vs CNN/Time Warner… (read more)
• January 25. 2012 – Churches File for New Closed Capitioning…(read more)
• January 25, 2012 – Death of James Jesperson, Co-Inventor of Closed Captioning…(read more)
• January 24, 2012 – Captioning, Translating the State of the Union…(read more)
• January 20, 2012 – FCC Releases Internet Protocol Captioning Rules…(read more)
• January 11, 2012 – Lipreading Mom Internet Captions Campaign…(read more)
• January 12, 2012 -  Gael Hannan on Reading a Pig’s Lips: The Joys of Movie Captioning…(read more)
• December 28, 2011 – Videos on Benefits of Captioning, Speech to Text Transliteration…(read more)
• December 28, 2011 – AMC Digital Theatres in California to Become Accessible…(read more)
• November 15, 2001 – Find Captioned Movies in Theaters and More with Captionfish…(read more)
• November 2, 2011 -  Australians Using Twitter to Report TV Captioning Problems…(read more)
• October 28, 2011 – Watch FCC Awards Presentation Online with Captions…(read more)
• October 21, 2011 -  Natl Court Reporter Assn Supports Quality Captioning…(read more)
• October 21, 2011 – Universal Subtitles Receives Award for Free Captioning on Online Videos..(read more)
• October 17, 2011 – Apple TV Upgrade for Captions iTune TV Shows, Netflix app…(read more)
• October 4, 2011 – NetFlix charged with discriminating against the deaf…(read more)

How to File a Complaint About Your TV Captioning

• Cable TV Stations
• Local DC Metro Stations

FCC Database for Closed Captioning Complaints

How to Caption A YouTube Video

Our friends at Media Access Australia have written a step by step guide for captioning YouTube videos and explaining online services that help you create a caption file such as CaptionTube and Overstream.
http://www.mediaaccess.org.au/online-media/caption-online-videos