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Captioning Community of Interest

Captioning Consumers Have a Voice

By Colin Cantlie

A consumer member of the Captioning Community of Interest reports on a consumer panel discussion held at NCRA's 2007 Midyear Conference in Vancouver.

Why I Hate Online Captioning (because it sucks compared to real captioning!)

By Joe Clark

An outspoken advocate for and critic of captioning talks about online and broadcast captioning at a conference for Web developers.

How I Became A Broadcast Captioner

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.

How Does It All Work? Broadcast Captioning Equipment

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. 

A Commitment To Professionalism 

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. 

The Evolution Of Captioning

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.