A Solution To The Captioning Crisis

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Why dont we have companies that market their products or services to the deaf communities start sponsoring captioning of some of the programs that were recently cut.

Filthy rich companies like Sorenson VRS could be tapped to sponsor captioning of some programs.

Try Sprint, Harriss Communications, WCI, ATT, or any other company to sponsor captioning.

This way we dont have to deal with politics that comes with public funds.

And for the companies, they can expose themselves to a larger audience than using any other media.

Richard Roehm
 
Sounds like a good idea, but would they go for it? :dunno:

If you can get them to sponsor captioning then my hat is off to you.
 
In the interest of smaller and less government intrusion into our lives, there will come a day when all CC is done with private money and most likely a tax incentive for businesses to do so....
 
All ya gotta do is ASK!

All ya gotta do is ASK them if they'd close captioned any of the 200 programs cut from ED dept funding.

If we all can do it then we can get it.

richard Roehm
 
Solution to Captioning Crisis

One of the major obstacles in captioning is a lack of captioners, not just funding. When I took the state license exam to become a certified court reporter, there were over 400 others taking the same test. Only 23 of us passed at that time. Now the exam has less than 100 people being tested at a time. The field is in need of people.
And more communication has to be had. Believe it or not, reporters are terrified of captioning. When I write testimony, I have 2 weeks to go over it, insert puncuation, fix a misstroke, change "end" to "and," etc. When someone is captioning, there's no time to decifer what the speaker said (and? end?). Oh my gosh! The speaker has a dialect, a stutter, a lisp -- and I made a mistake! And now EVERYONE can see my error! How totally embarrassing! It is drilled into our heads in school we MUST take testimony VERBATIM. Captioning doesn't give us an opportunity to "clean up" our mistakes.
Reporters need the HOH to assure them that you can accept the occasional error, the "end" instead of "and," the "affect" instead of "effect," the "there" instead of "their."
Call a local reporting school. Ask if you can come to speak to those students in the higher speed classes (225 words per minute). Let them know how much they're needed -- and you can read thru the mistakes.
- Kathy
 
I totally agree with you Kathy, but i also think that more companies should sponsor captioning as well.
 
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