"Realtime Captioning for the Hard of Hearing - Cutting Edge Technology to Help You Communicate Effectively with your Clients and Market your Practice By Janet L. Smith, JD Law Office of Janet L. Smith, PS (...) * Meeting: Provide agendas, handouts, speeches or other material beforehand to enable the CART provider to become familiar with the presentation and prepare for the assignment. Seat the CART provider in the same location as the consumer. If you have more than one or two consumers, it may be necessary to project onto a screen. * Courtroom: Provide information to the CART provider before the proceedings -- i.e., pleadings, deposition word indexes or other documents -- to enable the CART provider to become familiar with the case and prepare for the assignment. Seat the CART provider in the same location as the consumer requiring CART, whether at counsel table, the witness stand, jury box or bench. * Additional Hints: "

"There are several free or low-cost tools, software, and online, to help anyone who wants to caption their videos and make them accessible to millions around the world. (...)"

"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."

"BROADCAST CLOSED CAPTIONING Closed captioning can be extremely helpful in at least three different situations: It has been a great boon to hearing-impaired television viewers. It can also be helpful in noisy environments. For example, a TV in a noisy airport terminal can display closed captioning and still be usable Some people use captions to learn English or learn to read. For one good video on this, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OROk7fkY-OE&cc_load_policy=1 Closed captioning is embedded in the television signal and becomes visible when you use a special decoder, either as a separate appliance or built into a television set. The decoder lets viewers see captions, usually at the bottom of the screen, that will tell them what is being said or heard on their favorite TV shows. Since 1993, television sets with screens of 13 inches or more that are sold in the United States must have built-in decoders, under the Television Decoder Circuitry Act. Set-top decoders are available, too, for older TV sets. (...)"

"Breaking Down Laws Applicable to CART From Pete Wacht, Senior Director, Communications and Public Affairs, NCRA That Affect Both Provider and Consumer In a world where laws of every sort govern people's daily lives, it can be confusing to determine the differences between them. When dealing with a service like Communication Access Realtime Translation(CART), where the consumers, who are deaf or hard-of-hearing, are considered disabled, even more laws apply. From the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act(IDEA), both the CART provider and consumer are faced with a multitude of provisions and restrictions. Here is a look at each one individually as they relate to CART, including the requirements and definitions in the law, who is covered and what kind of services they provide. (...) "

"CART is an acronym that stands for Communication Access Realtime Translation. It is a speech-to-text interpreting service for anyone who needs communication access. CART benefits people who are late-deafened, hard of hearing, culturally Deaf, who have cochlear implants, and those learning English as a second language. CART is also referred to as realtime captioning. (...) "

"ADVOCACY FOR QUALITY CAPTIONING UNIVERSALLY IS THE CCAC MISSION. We invite you to join us in the online grass-roots project called the CCAC if you support the CCAC mission, hearing or not, deaf or not. (...) CCAC is neither a deaf nor a hearing loss association. It is an advocacy community aiming to educate and advocate on many levels for inclusion of quality captioning where none exists now. (...)"

"(...) See all the articles listed below, following a short list of more general resources that provide excellent information.: a. General advocacy resource - ADA Free Web Course on Disability Rights (...) b. (...) National Park Service (...) c. (...) video about "accessible media" in education (...) d. (...) TDI (...) about Television Captioning and Airline Travel (...) e. http://www.howtobecomeacourtreporter.info/ is about Court Reporters. (...)