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"CART, Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Mobile CART at the Met by Ruth D. Bernstein I'm a volunteer for the Access Programs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met), (on Facebook and here.) It's a job I really enjoy, that is why I was pleased to take a walk into the future in the spring of 2011 when I took part in the first demonstration of a mobile CART system at the Met presented by Ms. Mirabai Knight. I attended this very special gallery tour with Rebecca McGinnis, the Met's Access Coordinator and Deepa Shastri, Live Events Programme Officer of London's STAGETEXT."

"When considering captioning in the performing arts, there are two things to keep in mind: 1) Captioning is not the same as opera surtitles (or supertitles). Surtitles are highly synopsized, carefully edited translations of what is being sung. Captioning is a word-for-word transcription of what the performers are saying or singing as well as sound cues like "phone rings", "knock at door", or "classical music". 2) Captioning for live theater targets people whose hearing loss is too severe to benefit from the use of assistive listening devices and who don't use or know sign language. The following should help you research how to offer captioning at your venue."