On July 31, Congress passed the Higher Education Opportunity Act. Included in the Act is NCRA's Training for Realtime Writers language, which creates a competitive grant program to train realtime writers to provide both captioned information and communication access for the 30 million Americans who...
The NCRA Captioning Community of Interest has issued a document with captioning style and format guidelines for U.S. television programming. The 62-page document provides guidance for independent realtime captioners on a multitude of style and formatting issues, including parentheticals, obscenities...
The U.S. House of Representatives Thursday passed its version of the Higher Education Reauthorization bill, which includes language to create a grant program to train realtime writers to provide captioned information and communication for people who are deaf and hard-of-hearing nationwide. NCRA will...
These thoughts, posted to the NCRA Forum by NCRA Technology Evaluation Committee member Breck Record of Texas, represent the sole views of the author. This Tech Tracker publication aims to inform recipients of technological changes and developments in our industry and provide a forum for discussion on...