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Google translation from Hebrew: "...Raising awareness among the hearing community, deaf community in Israel. Encouraging accessibility of community service providers and institutions deaf and hard of hearing. Establishing a strong volunteer team and active in the congregation hearing and deaf community. Establishing a strong association recognized association among deaf and hearing community"

On May 14, 2012 a 15-second video presented in American Sign Language will appear on the CBS Super Screen at Times Square, where more than 300,000 pedestrians traffic daily. This is possibly the first video placement by a Deaf-run agency at Times Square, one of the most recognizable landmarks in the world. This public service announcement is produced by Abused Deaf Women's Advocacy Services and underwritten by Convo Communications. ADWAS wants to thank Convo for making this momentous event possible!

with videos in sign language of religious texts

While millions of U.S. citizens voted for national and local elections last week, some of the nation's deaf and hard of hearing citizens were casting important votes on the future of captioned radio

"Published on May 3, 2012 by asaflivni facebook.com/TogetherPage Men and Women Deaf and hearing of all nations and religions Speak in one language. Together. Created by: Sar-el Oren Ohana & Asaf Livni"

In Israel, there is only one sign language used by both Palestinians and Jews.

"Uploaded by payitfwdisl on Oct 17, 2010 Pay It Forward In Signs is a non-profit organization created to raise awareness and bridge the gap between the deaf and the hearing communities in Israel. Lean more at : http://www.payitfwdisl.org.il or in ower Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pay-it-forward-in-sign-language/110699218993662"

Arch Oboler's Plays Episode from March 9th, 1940 Title : Johnny Got His Gun Starring James Cagney The story of a blind, deaf ex-GI and his struggles in a VA hospital after losing both arms and legs. Written By : Dalton Trumbo

The systems works a lot like close captioning does for television. The company will piggy-back a data stream on the standard audio signal. The text can then be read on radio fitted with a display. The system will only work with digital broadcasts, but the company says an Internet-based solution is possible. Currently more than 1,500 radio stations are currently broadcasting in HD Radio in the United States.

Alessio Cartocci of the web accessibility work group Webmultimediale of Italy has developed an Internet video player with switchable multilingual subtitles and a resizeable sign language window that is superimposed over the player.

NPR, Harris Corporation and Towson University today announced a new initiative to make radio more accessible to the hundreds of millions of hearing and visually impaired people around the world.

Automatic captions in YouTube in many languages PLUS: You can type up your own captions and upload and YouTube times them automatically through text-to-speech. Then, you can download the text file with the timings next to the captions. If this really works, wow!