On election night, eight major national networks, including 3 all-news networks, used VITAC realtime captioners to provide English and Spanish access to viewers who were deaf or hard-of-hearing. Through the efforts of 92 captioners and 600 different data connections, 71 million viewers watching Barack Obama's win all had access to near-perfect captioning.
Posted
Dec 05 2008, 11:15 AM
by
Serge Obolensky, CAE