US research project aims to improve captions on mobile devices

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Thursday, 17 March 2011 13:17pm

American access organisation National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) has begun a major research project to address access issues relating to captioned content on mobile devices.

NCAM has stressed that people who are Deaf or hearing impaired face real challenges when trying to access captioned content on devices such as smartphones or tablets. This can be due to issues with the media player as well as a lack of captioned content.

The research project, as reported by the US media company WGBH, is designed to address the following:

  • Encouraging the production and distribution of more captioned content
  • Identifying technical solutions and tools to enable portable devices to more easily display captions
  • Identifying mainstream non-proprietary and proprietary means of accessing these solutions

For those interested in how to create captions on YouTube, or simply just find accessible content on the Internet, please visit the Media Access Australia website.


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