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Monday, August 31, 2009

Deaf ally asks for Facebook to caption videos

From Bill Creswell, who is working to caption video content on the Internet:

Captions for Facebook – Developer Request

I have added the request for caption capability on Facebook video. If you’re a Facebook developer, and want to add your vote: http://bugs.developers.facebook.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6472

BA Haller at 8:06 PM

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BA Haller: Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.

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