[CALIBK12] Live description/closed captioning of the Obama inauguration

[Elizabeth Hart]

If your school is planning to watch the Inauguration live, and you have
blind/visually impaired students or deaf/hard of hearing students, PBS
will be providing live descriptive narration and captioning from 11 am
to 1:30 pm EST. See
http://billcreswell.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/pbs-inauguration-coverage-t
o-be-described-and-captioned-live/ for more info.

 

Described version of coverage will also stream live on the Joint
Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies (JCCIC) web site, 
http://www.inaugural.senate.gov/

 

>From a press release from the Media Access Group at WGBH:

 
Closed captions display spoken dialogue as text on the television
screen.  The live captions will be typed by specially trained
stenocaptioners working from WGBH's Boston-based headquarters and
broadcast simultaneously with the live program.  The descriptive
narration, provided by an expert team of describers, will be audible
during pauses in program dialogue and will identify speakers, describe
settings and convey other visual information about the event. Captions
can be accessed on televisions equipped with built-in decoders (most
televisions are equipped), while viewers can hear descriptions by
switching to the Second Audio Program (SAP) channel on their stereo TVs.

 

Elizabeth Hart

Library Technical Assistant

California School for the Blind

Fremont, CA 94536

ehart at csb-cde.ca.gov

 

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