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WGBH gets mobile media grant - Daily Business Update - The Boston Globe
Public broadcaster WGBH Boston said today it has received a $600,000 grant from the US Department of Education to support efforts to make handheld media accessible for people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
WGBH said it will use the money over three years to research and develop technical solutions for delivering captioned content to iPods, cellphones, PDAs and other mobile devices; the money is from the Department of Education's National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, WGBH said.
"From TV programs to school science experiments to corporate training presentations, more and more video content is being delivered through handheld media," Larry Goldberg, director of media access for WGBH, said in a statement. "Yet the 28 million Americans who are deaf and hard of hearing can't fully benefit from this content because it lacks captions."
Public broadcaster WGBH Boston said today it has received a $600,000 grant from the US Department of Education to support efforts to make handheld media accessible for people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
WGBH said it will use the money over three years to research and develop technical solutions for delivering captioned content to iPods, cellphones, PDAs and other mobile devices; the money is from the Department of Education's National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, WGBH said.
"From TV programs to school science experiments to corporate training presentations, more and more video content is being delivered through handheld media," Larry Goldberg, director of media access for WGBH, said in a statement. "Yet the 28 million Americans who are deaf and hard of hearing can't fully benefit from this content because it lacks captions."
