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I was curious. The FCC does "type acceptance" of devices to make sure they don't emit too much RFI, so surely they would check digital TVs for conformance to FCC 00-259, right? Wrong. I called the FCC and eventually got the answer: they're counting on consumers to complain about TVs that...

The Siouxland Renaissance Festival will have sign language interpreters at the following performances on Sunday, June 4: 11:00 a.m. Lolly Pockets - Storytree Stage (Children) 12:00 noon Mistress Bawd - Bare Knuckle Pub (Adult) 12:45 p.m. My Lady’s Cutlass - Bare Knuckle Pub (Adult) 1:30...

I ask because in spoken languages there seems to be a family of children's songs and stories that make use of, and maybe serve as instruction in, recursive grammar rules, with each verse or paragraph going one level deeper: "The House That Jack Built," "The Rattling Bog," "There's a Hole in the...

This thread on Slashdot asks the question "How would you design an OS from scratch that would target individuals who are blind and/or deaf?" There are the obvious stupid references to the Who's Tommy, but I hope that some serious discussion will come out of it. I mention it in case others here...

I have some problems with dexterity. 1. I have a hard time getting my fingers into the "R" handshape. Once in class I used the other hand to move the middle finger over into position when fingerspelling. It got a laugh from the teacher, but I'd like to be able to do better. 2. My left hand...

Since my job has had something to do with captioning, I've taken to leaving the home TV with caption display on, even though I'm hearing. It's been a highly educational experience! One thing I've noticed is a local station generating captioning for its news from the teleprompter text. I...

I'm configuring a system that I bought a couple of years ago, so that I can give it to my former ASL teacher, who is Deaf. I have a WinTV card in it, and so I want a program for TV viewing that will display captioning well. Alas, that's turning out to be difficult. xawtv won't show...

I'm a big fan of Lilo and Stitch--enough that I even watch the half-hour cartoon, wretched as it is compared with the original movie. I saw it on ABC, and then on the Disney Channel...and noticed that the captioning is different! On ABC, they don't do a very good job, but on Disney, even the...

I'm confused. Captioning Key says that idioms and dialect should be preserved, but when I watch BBC America with captioning turned on, the captions seem to violate that. A person says "innit?" but it's captioned "isn't it?", or says "aluminium" but it's captioned "aluminum." Are they catering to...

Digital TV is supposed to have a lot of new features for captioning. 64 colors eight fonts (really sixteen, since they can be italic or not) small, medium, or large text sizes potentially lots of captioning services on a single channel up to eight windows for a captioning service...

I'm trying to get Closed Captioning working with a (few years old) Hauppauge WinTV card under Fedora Core 1 Linux. ntsc-cc works, but I want something that looks like the familiar TV image rather than a separate text window with the CC, so I'm trying to get zapping to work. RPMs in question...