Google adds automatic captions to YouTube

Good news to the closed caption advocates like me! Google, in a significant development for the deaf, announced on Thursday it was adding automatic caption capability to videos on YouTube. Google said machine-generated captions would initially be available only in English and on videos from 13 YouTube "partner channels" but it hopes to extend the...

Closed Caption bill filed in Philippine Senate

Philippine Senator and action movie star Ramon "Bong" Revilla Jr. filed a landmark bill addressing barriers on access to information. Senate Bill 2872 or Closed Caption Bill which he filed last November 12 requires news programs on television to broadcast with sub-title or captioned. This is a welcome news especially for people like me who...

Closed Captioning on the Internet

Here is the summary of the lecture I presented during the centennial anniversary celebration of Philippines School for the Deaf last December 2007. Closed Captioning is one of the important priority recommendations of Web Accessibility Initiative of World Wide Web Consortium or W3C (Priority 1-1.3 and 1-1.4) and of Philippine Web Accessibility Group Maturity Stage...