The WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) has developed an impressive mobile system to enhance the experience for visitors to cultural institutions who are blind, deaf, hard-of-hearing or who speak languages other than English. The innovative technology from NCAM, dubbed “Media Access Mobile,” provides synchronized text and/or audio description in any combination of languages, all provided simultaneously, over a WiFi network and displayed on commercially available handheld devices (which can be provided to visitors on-site). Watch Media Access Mobile (MAM) in action in a new brief video. Contact ncam@wgbh.org to learn more.
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The WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) has developed an impressive mobile system to enhance the experience for visitors to cultural institutions who are blind, deaf, hard-of-hearing or who speak languages other than English. The innovative technology from NCAM, dubbed “Media Access Mobile,” provides synchronized text and/or Captioned Hypnosis
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
What the Hypnotoad can teach us about closed captioning
Recurring sounds on TV shows present us with an opportunity to explore questions of consistency and accuracy in closed captioning. When a sound recurs in the same context or originates repeatedly from the same character, should it be captioned consistently? Moreover, given a number of different, presumably viable options for captioning the same recurring sound/character, which option is best?
Continue reading Captioned Hypnosis
Blind Film Critic: Blind Man vs. The ATM
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
Blind film critic Tommy Edison shows us what it’s like for him to use this ATM machine for the first time. Continue reading Blind Film Critic: Blind Man vs. The ATM
What Does a Describer Do?
Thursday, August 12th, 2010
by Jan Stankus
Courtesy of ©ITV for Masterpiece
Detective Hercule Poirot stares at the porter. Shadows accent his thick arched eyebrows, piercing dark eyes, and tight thin lips. His neat, waxed moustache curls up at the corners.
-From Murder on the Orient Express starring David Suchet.
When I tell people I’m a Describer, they usually say something like, “Oh! You write those words that appear on the bottom of the TV screen!” Then I patiently say, “No. That’s captioning. Description is different. Description makes TV-programs, films, art exhibits, and more accessible to people who are blind or who have low vision.”
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