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Old Tue Oct 23, 2007, 11:00am
jimpiano jimpiano is offline
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Originally Posted by Ref Ump Welsch
Newscasts that do not utilize real-time captioning are doing this. This leaves out the banter between the anchor and the weatherperson or the sports anchor, or the live feeds. Not really 100 percent accessible to Deaf people. You'll have to excuse my rantings on this captioning topic because I do have a hearing loss myself and use captioning all the time.
Which are most local newscasts in the country since it is much cheaper for the computer to power closed captioning than a human.