Caption Action 2 Petitions Yahoo!

Caption Action 2 has decided to take on Yahoo. Why Yahoo?

For years the deaf and hard of hearing community has been asking Yahoo to update its video player to add support for closed captioning. When we recently asked Yahoo about it, the response was that they were "working hard" to get it done but could not give an exact date. Our feeling is that we have waited long enough! It is time to give Yahoo a big push to make adding closed captioning support a number 1 priority. How are we going to do it? A petition! Caption Action 2 leader Robert Goodwin has started a petition on Change.org:

https://www.change.org/petitions/yahoo-inc-add-closed-captioning-support-now

We need big numbers to show Yahoo the deaf and hard of hearing community is serious about wanting them to add support for closed captioning, NOW.

Yahoo has a section on its website devoted to professional web video: screen.yahoo.com. Yahoo has also recently made big investments in professional video and one result is the recently launched, high-profile Tom Hanks-produced web series Electric City. (Electric City is at electriccity.yahoo.com). In addition, top Yahoo web series such as "Burning Love" frequently turn up on media lists of web series.

How much of a priority are we at Yahoo? Obviously we, the deaf and hard of hearing (and hearing who use captions and subtitles) are not much of one! It looks like for the launch of Electric City, Yahoo added a special feature: voice translation in three languages: English, French, and Spanish. But they could not be bothered to stop and think "What about captions? Shouldn't we add closed captioning support?"

Yahoo is behind other web video players: Hulu, Google (YouTube), Netflix, DailyMotion, and Blip all added support for closed captioning a long time ago. How hard can it be to add support for closed captioning if all those others have already done it? Yahoo can afford to pay their new CEO $71 million as has been reported in the news. Thus, they certainly can afford to invest in an immediate upgrade to their video player to add closed captioning support.

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Caption Action 2: May 2012 Newsletter

This is the Caption Action 2 newsletter for May 2012.

In the last newsletter, we reported that we were going back to previously contacted web series producers to ask again, for captions. There have been a few successes.

Some producers have responded to say that they will caption, though they haven't started yet. One of them is the producer of travel web series: Others have said they will look into captioning or have requested information on how they can caption their web series.

Since the previous newsletter, these web series have begun captioning:

Read more: http://www.causes.com/causes/306249-caption-action-2-internet-closed-captioning/actions/1654042

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Caption Action 2: February 2012 Newsletter

This is the Caption Action 2 newsletter for February 2012.

There have not been many new captioned web series in the past few months. We are going back to some of the hundreds of producers who were contacted previously, to ask again for captions.

Newly added is:

Divine: The Series
http://www.youtube.com/user/divinetheseries
A dark, supernatural web series about a priest who sees the the resurrection of an immortal being named Divine.


Read more: http://www.causes.com/causes/306249-caption-action-2-internet-closed-captioning/actions/1593033

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