What's New

Disney·Pixar's "Up" now on DVD, Blu-ray and iTunes with Descriptive Video Service® (November 2009)

Free Guidelines for Creating Accessible iTunes U Materials Now Available (November 2009)

Free Guidelines for Describing STEM Images for Use within Digital Talking Books and on Web Sites (September 2009)

WGBH/Boston Collaborates with The Hall At Patriot Place Presented By Raytheon to Enhance Museum Access for All Patrons (January 2009)

Media Access Group at WGBH Provides Closed Captioning And Live Description for PBS's Inaugural Coverage (December 2008)

Rear Window® Captioning Makes Digital Cinema Debut (December 2008)

Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Users Vote "Yes" on New Radio Technology During Live Captioned Broadcast of Presidential Election (November 2008)

Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who Arrives in Select Theaters with Captions and Audio Descriptions for Movie Fans of All Ages (March 2008)

AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! Unite to Advance Online Media Captioning (October 2007)

"When Good Captions Go Bad: A Story or Two About HDTV Accessibility," an outreach and policy paper from NCAM (August 2007)

WGBH Receives $600,000 Grant to Develop Solutions for Captioning Handheld Media for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Citizens (August 2007)

WGBH's Media Access Efforts Attract Major Gift (December 2006)

NPR and NCAM Partner to Create Accessible Radio Technology (October 2006)

WGBH's MoPix® System Wins da Vinci Award (September 2006)

Design Guidelines for Electronic Publications, Multimedia and the Web (July 2006)

AOL and WGBH Collaborate on Captions for Online Video (July 2006)

A&E Network's Touch the Top of the World to be Accessible to Viewers who are Blind or Visually Impaired (June 2006)

Access to In-Flight Entertainment and Information Focus of Latest WGBH/NCAM R&D Effort (April 2006)

WGBH and Shapiro Family Foundation Collaborate on Community Workshops Exploring Accessible Media Technology (October 2005)

NCAM's Access Alerts Project to Make Emergency Warnings Accessible (September 2005)

Live Described Coverage of Inauguration 2005 on PBS (January 2005)

WGBH and Stevie Wonder Create Groundbreaking Music Video Described for Visually Impaired Listeners (May 2005)

Product Launch: CaptionKeeper Recycles TV Captions for Web Streaming (November 2004)

WGBH's Rear Window® Captioning to be Installed in 12 D.C.-area Theaters (May 2004)

NCAM Shows Latest DTV Access Advances at NAB2004 (April 2004)

Guidelines for Creating Talking Menus for Set-top Boxes and DVDs Released (August 2003)

America Online Makes Finding "MoPix" Movies a Click Away (June 2003)

IMS Releases Draft Specification to Improve Accessibility of Online Learning (April 2003)

MAGpie 2.01 released (March 2003)

Guidelines for making educational software and Web sites accessible released (February 2003)

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