Thursday, March 21, 2013

U.S. law is working against efforts to caption online videos

Helen Keller wrote in 1903 “Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends.” Yet more than a century later, the vast majority of the world’s printed and digital books—and many television shows, movies, video games, and other copyrighted works—still aren’t accessible to people with disabilities." Read more about how U.S. law is working against efforts to caption online videos. Read the story here.