LNS Captioning

11/01/2023

Here's a story about Senator Fetterman's appearance on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert." The senator read what the captioner wrote just for him so he could stay on track during the show.

NCRA member provides captioning for U.S. Senator on CBS’ Late Show with Stephen Colbert October 27, 2023 Emily Nicholson On Oct. 11 Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to discuss an array of issues. Throughout the interview, the senator relied on capt...

10/30/2023

Like most people, I have my mind on the deaf community in Maine. I received an email with a link to the Maine community's information: https://www.deafmaine.org/contribute/ Please consider contributing. Thank you.

GoFundMe's:These GoFundMe's have been established by the victim's families -- we strongly encourage you to contribute to them. Your contribution will be separate from most of the funeral and interpreting costs making it more impactful for the victims. **NEW** Family of Steve Vozzella - GoFundMe orga...

04/27/2023

Gen Z kids love captioning. And their loving captioning is changing our culture. More and more people expect captions to be turned on. People with hearing disabilities are right alongside these young folks.

Check out this article from New Jersey.

Young audiences are turning captions on and spurring advances in long-overlooked accessibility tools.

03/23/2023

Bravo, National Association of the Deaf!!

https://youtu.be/0OgPNVIjWnM

We Won We WON! Earlier this year, we went to the US Supreme Court with Disability Rights Michigan, Latham & Watkins, and Ellen Saideman, to represent a Deaf man, Miguel Luna Perez, who grew up in a public school district without any access to sign language interpreters or accommodations. All nine Su...

03/16/2023

Hey, this is great. Our national association held a legislative boot camp in Washington, D.C., three weeks ago. A delegation of Missouri and Kansas members dropped in on one of the Missouri representatives, and they did some excellent work!

Training for Realtime Writers Act gains first sponsor in U.S. House of Representatives March 13, 2023 NCRA Government Relations is proud to announce that Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, II of Missouri will serve as the first sponsor of the Training for Realtime Writers Act in the 118th Congress. The bill seek...

03/14/2023

Hi, everyone. If you see TV captions that are not accurate, synchronous, placed correctly, and/or complete, please file a complaint with the FCC. Instructions are included in this link.

And if you have any questions, let us know. Our company was involved in setting up these Federal guidelines back in 2014.

Closed captioning displays the audio portion of a television program as text on the TV screen, providing a critical link to news, entertainment and information for individuals who are deaf or hard-of-hearing.

02/08/2023

Hey, everyone, it's still National Court Reporting and Captioning Week. Here's an interview of a judge who supports people reporting the proceedings and not a digital recorder.

You cannot duplicate the performance of the human mind and ear February 2, 2023 The Hon. Dan. R. Slayton In an article posted Jan. 25 by the Arizona Daily Sun, the Hon. Dan Slayton, presiding judge of the Coconino County Superior Court, was quoted as saying he believes a court reporter should be av...

01/25/2023

News from one of our captioning friends, Darian Elliott. Darian was asked to caption for "Hamilton" at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

My night with Hamilton January 20, 2023 By Darian Elliott Darian Elliott, RPR, CRR, CRC, from Frederick, Md., has been providing captioning and CART for 23 years — covering church services, news programs, council meetings, theatre performances, sporting events, and her favorite, classes for studen...

11/30/2022

Federal legislation considers updates to captioning law November 28, 2022 In 2010, NCRA was one of many parties involved in the passage of the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA), which made sure that accessibility laws enacted in the 1980s and 1990s were brought up to d...

09/29/2022

70% of overall toxic waste in America is through e-waste.

Did you know that the City of Portland has been battling e-waste since the 90’s? That’s right. The City has recycled computers and monitors since the service first came online in the early 1990s. The program expanded in 2009 to include “micro electronics” such as cables, mice, keyboards, AV equipment, small scanners, speakers.

Each year the City diverts 35,000 pounds of electronics from landfills by donating used electronics to the non-profit Free Geek. Free Geek's goal is to reroute technology from landfills by refurbishing it and giving it back to the community at no or low costs.

FREE GEEK
Bureau of Planning and Sustainability

09/06/2022

Just so you know, an LNS captioner made those captions on that screen. Cool!

https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2022/09/reser-stadiums-5-million-video-board-gave-oregon-state-a-few-nervous-moments-but-the-cool-factor-is-undeniable.html?utm_campaign=theoregonian_sf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0NhDLOCZq_j19fPziZfQiUQcAccyRmcQRPeCFXsfkUYdjp538-kQCIadM

The 6,750-square foot scoreboard became operational and powered by Wednesday night, giving the school less than three days to test before Saturday night's season opener

08/11/2022

Press release from the Federal Communications Commission about access for TV programming:

This page contains important information and activities pertaining to the Commission’s rules regarding access to emergency information on television, including rules, guides, orders, public notices, notices and press releases.

08/03/2022

This is a great story about captioners and court reporters sharing their time to make a difference in our community.

Court reporters preserve Freedmen’s Bureau documents at Transcribe-A-Thon August 2, 2022 Transcribe-A-Thon participants Following a successful Zoom Transcribe-A-Thon in February arranged by Margary Rogers, RPR, CRI, an official court reporter and captioner from Washington, D.C., and Juanita Price,...

08/03/2022

Great words of praise for Deanna Baker! The first time I met Deanna was at a regional HLAA meeting here in Portland in 1992. She showed me how to display my captions on an overhead projector. Remember those things? We've come such a long way since then, and we all owe so much gratitude to Deanna for leading the way.

Rocky Stone Humanitarian Award presented to Deanna Baker July 29, 2022 Deanna Baker with Michael Meyer, nephew of Rocky Stone, founder of HLAA and a member of the Board of Directors By Lisa Johnston The Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) honored one of its own at its national convention in T...

05/04/2022

Please take note! All of our work is now provided over the internet. What a change from when we started captioning 29 years ago!

The countdown to the end of copper POTS lines has begun May 2, 2022 By Carol Studenmund FCC Order 19-72A1 releases telephone carriers from obligations to maintain copper POTS lines as of August 2, 2022. POTS stands for Plain Old Telephone Service. For decades, captioning data has been delivered to c...

03/08/2022

We received some very nice client feedback today at the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners meeting.

"Now Jeston Black will provide an overview of the legislative session and how that might impact our local work.
>> JESTON: First, I would like to give a shout-out to the closed captioner spelling my name correctly, which is amazing.
[Laughter]
>> JESTON: Thank you."

Marina Hovious, Board Clerk
Multnomah County Commissioners

01/06/2022

Great job, Chad Ludwig.

The DeafBlind Institute at Western Oregon University recently received $2.1 million to help train interpreters in Protactile, a language created by DeafBlind people.

12/08/2021

Well, this was a great find this morning in my emails. Tevin H. Green works for our court reporting firm, and we are so blessed to have him with us. And the person who interviewed Tevin is Kendra Steppler, and she worked for us while she was in court reporting school.

New Professional Profile: Tevin Green December 5, 2021 Tevin Green By Kendra Steppler Tevin Green lives in Vancouver, Wash., where he works as a freelance reporter. He graduated from Sumner College in Portland, Ore., and has been an NCRA member since 2015. KS | Why did you choose to become a court ...