Captioning Takes Hold in Stadiums as a Way to Maintain ADA Compliance

By Ellen Rugeley   The Arizona Cardinals and the Arizona Sports and Tourism Authority have implemented a new plan to accommodate hearing impaired fans at the University of Phoenix Stadium. These accommodations include text captioning on video boards so that fans that have difficulty hearing the public-address system can read the play-by-play information as games are in progress.   The driver for these improvement is primarily a lawsuit brought by Michael Ubowski, a Mesa resident and ad