Table of Contents

Part I: Overview of Closed Captioning
Why Closed Captioning?
A Brief History of Captioning
Part II: Captioning Law
Overview of U.S. Captioning Law
The Americans with Disabilities Act
The Telecommunications Act of 1996
Other FCC Rulings
Part III: Captioning Technology
Where the Captions Live: A Line 21 Overview
Encoding, Decoding, Troubleshooting
Generating Captions in Realtime
Part IV: Related Technologies
Captions in Internet Streaming
Web Site Accessibility
Movie Theater Captioning
Live Event Captioning
Video Description for the Blind
Part V: Captioning Around the World
Part VII: Appendices, Glossary, and Index

Promotional Information

*Teaches American broadcasters what they need to do to comply with the law requiring closed captioning by 2006
*Written by a pioneer in the field
*Complete glossary of terms relating to captioning, broadcasting, deafness, and realtime, as well as appendices of the relevant standards

About the Author

Gary D. Robson is one of the foremost experts in the field of closed captioning. He was the 1997 recipient of the Telecommunications for the Deaf Andrew Saks Engineering Award for "outstanding contributions in improving visual accessibility to information via realtime captioning for deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans.” An author of two books and over 50 articles on captioning-including the World Book Encyclopedia entry-he also designed closed captioning software which became the standard tool for the industry. Gary is an independent captioning consultant in Montana.

Reviews

"A 'biblical' tome for captioning--this book will be referenced by those in the captioning industry in the years to come. The industry owes it to Gary Robson. Honestly, without Gary, there is very little out there documenting the development of captioning, from both a historical and technical point of view." Philip W. Braven, ex-President of the National Captioning Institute and former Chairman of the Gallaudet University Board of Trustees