New Zealand Caption It

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Deaf NZers want ALL movies and TV program captioned.

New Zealand’s rate of public broadcasting captioning is available at less than 25% over a 24 hour period, and sits at the level of that seen in third world countries.

This compares poorly to approximately 85% in Australia and 100% in the United States and United Kingdom. This low level of captioning severely impedes community integration for people who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing, and breaches Article 9 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

A Plea from Zoe. « Caption It

New Zealand Struggles with Basic Captioning Rights Unlike America | The Silent Grapevine

What do you think about it?, Grummer or NZ AD users
 
funny that poster in Zoe's website have shortland street (NZ's longest running soap/drama show) is subtitled....so...??why that?? its sports, news, MORE news, not just PRIME time...its the other channels that doesn't do it.....really annoying...
 
...but...captions are only a small part of real-life Deaf struggles for rights and equality....so i kind of think 'don't over-focus on it' too much that's just meh
 
Live captioning for TV news and sports?
 
yes but only in Prime time, not late night or breaking news, like for example the MH370...
 
we have now like 15-20 channels (depending where you are) and basically the availability of subtitles is still limited to the first 3 channels (the 3rd, TV3 have about quarter or less the amount of subtitles available, their prime time news have NO subititles, and political talk back shows (good ones) live parliament (bit like your congress) have NOne its so bad that they seem to think d/Deaf people or aged deafen hearing have no interest orno 'relevance as citizens to be informed'....its piss-poor

SO basically its this, ONE Prime time News (6pm) gets subtitles, if little else more imports tv shows

re runs of old movies , sometimes yes, and sometimes no, but main thing as long as it is in the major TV1 or TV2 it would have good chance to be subtitled (same as captioned just diff word) but other channels with perhaps a more interesting, retro, or retro minor film that has interesting (potentially) story lines but crap budget nevertheless could still be interesting to watch/read - well its never captioned for us...to enjoy the difference

so it shows shoddy attitudes towards d/Deaf people to assume we're kind of boring, dumb, pro-american-movies and or with limited intellectual capability , all this is really an insult.....but then TV does insult hearies while the hearies don't know it....still though, not right to cut us off...
but like i said in the beginning broadcast TV is only a tiny hassle of what d/Deaf people really go thru in REAL life, to me, it's a little silly to focus on 'communication' RME.....Id liken to think we should explore the very real but very underrated aspect of everyday lives, like "communication abuse'...but for this, its on another league and way way out of depth of this mere thread....just meh
 
Do you favor American TV programs? Closed captioning?
 
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