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The NCRA Captioning Community of Interest has issued a document with captioning style and format guidelines for U.S. television programming. The 62-page document provides guidance for independent realtime captioners on a multitude of style and formatting issues, including parentheticals, obscenities and other sensitive words, scripting, musical notes and lyrics, slang and poor grammar, and much more. The guidelines are meant to complement the guidelines that some captioning companies require their captioners to follow. The Community of Interest notes that when captioning companies have guidelines in place for their captioners, the captioning company guidelines take precedence.
By Colin Cantlie and Joe Gordon
As our community becomes more aware of how technology can help us through our daily lives, we sometimes feel that the people who produce technological products and services forget the most important component: the end user.
By Colin Cantlie
Many people use the word “captioning,” but what does that mean? Consumers tend to call any text communication process “captioning,” not knowing the true definition of captioning.
A consumer member of the Captioning Community of Interest reports on a consumer panel discussion held at NCRA's 2007 Midyear Conference in Vancouver.
By Joe Clark
An outspoken advocate for and critic of captioning talks about online and broadcast captioning at a conference for Web developers.
By Louise Becker, RPR, CRR, CBC, CCP, Olympia, Wash.In late 1991, I was working for a freelance reporting agency in the city of Olympia, Wash. I had been reporting for a little over a year and had just passed the RPR exam. I heard about the Court Reporters Forum on CompuServe. It sounded pretty interesting, so I signed up. There weren't a lot of reporters on there, but they were very friendly and I enjoyed the conversations. In 1992, some of the reporters on the CR Forum were discussing realtime and how they were doing realtime for various deaf and hard-of-hearing groups.
By Jennifer Bonfilio, RMR, CRR, CBC, Hamilton Township, N.J. Okay, you probably know all about the work that goes into changing your writing for captioning and the endless hours of dictionary building and purging, but what about the technical end of it? You might ask, Do I need to hire a geeky computer guy to come connect the doohingy to the whatchamajingy? And how do I know what hoozamacallit to buy in the first place? Oh, not to mention where to buy it? And how much is this all gonna cost me? Well, don't panic.
By Cynthia Hill, Mill Creek, Wash. Do people think that captioners are less professional because they can work from home? Find out what one captioner thinks about this and what she recommends for portraying professionalism.
By Judith Brentano, RPR, FAPR, DSA, Punta Gorda, Fla. Do people think that captioners are less professional because they can work from home? Find out what one captioner thinks about this and what she recommends for portraying professionalism.
CART’ing into the Past
By Jennifer Bonfilio, RMR, CRR, CBC, Hamilton Township, N.J. I was contacted via email one day requesting CART services for the New Jersey School for the Deaf/Marie Katzenbach School for the Deaf (NJSD/MKSD) for a weekend of 125th Anniversary Celebration activities. I immediately accepted and was never so enthusiastic about any CART assignment before.