Sports Industry Moves Toward ADA Compliance by Providing Captioning to the Deaf

Feb 6, 2015

Earlier this winter, it was reported that the U.S. Justice Department plans to propose new rules that would require movie theaters to provide devices for closed-captioning and audio descriptions of what is happening on the screen.   Can sports facilities be far behind? And is closed-captioning enough?   Many organizations representing the hearing-disabled community advocate open captioning, which would scroll the dialogue on the screen for all to see. The challenge for them may be that
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