Net video leaves the deaf behind
The situation is much worse here, sad to say. When we have a government which re-defines ‘lame’ when it comes to excuses - for goodness’ sake, it claims that it’s not cost-effective, not practical to have close captioning on prime-time TV - we really have a long slog ahead.
There are 28 million deaf and hard-of-hearing people in the United States, according to the National Association of the Deaf. There are virtually no Internet videos with closed captioning information. The top online news video providers — including MSNBC.com and CNN.com — currently don’t provide captions.
