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Re: AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! Unite to Advance Online Media Captioning

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From: Cynthia Waddell
Date: Oct 4, 2007 6:40PM

Dear Ms. Watkins:
As a person who relies on captioning, this is wonderful news indeed! It is
consistent with the current NCAM projects for accessible airplane movies and
its NPR partnership for captioned radio.

The captioning of web-based video has many challenges and this announcement
certainly gives those of us in the community of people with hearing
disabilities hope that accessibility will be resolved.

Best regards,
Cynthia Waddell


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