OPEN-CAPTIONED VIDEOS VIA INTERNET - The National Association for the
Deaf (NAD) recently announced that it will begin the first-ever Internet video
streaming of open-captioned educational videos. No other streamed material of this
kind is captioned. Therefore, 28,000,000 Americans with a hearing loss are the
potential beneficiaries of this historic media event. Over the past four decades,
free-loan captioned media have been provided to deaf and hard of hearing persons,
their families, and others who work with persons with a hearing loss. This through-
the-mail service will now be supplemented by the latest in digital technology." For
this program, RealPlayer will be needed and can be downloaded at:
http://www.cfv.org Approximately 450 titles will be streamed. There is no
registration fee, and registered users may also borrow from the collection of over
4,000 open-captioned videos. For an example of a captioned streamed video, visit:
http://www.cfv.org, choose the Media Room section and view a captioned TV-PSA
segment.