Nearly two dozen first-year students in CCAC’s (Community College of Allegheny County) stenography and court reporting program visited VITAC this week to learn more about captions and see first-hand how realtime and offline captions are created. Mary Beth Johnson runs the CCAC program, and brings her students each year for … Read More
Captioning Spirits, Spooks, and Specters on ‘Haunted Live’ a Scary-Good Time
“Haunted Live,” which premiered last month on Travel Channel, is not your typical ghost hunting show. Sure, it’s got all the spooky creaks, unexplained shadows, and mysteriously closing doors that you’ve come to expect from supernatural sleuthing shows, but “Haunted Live” uniquely enlists the aid of viewers to help drive … Read More
VITAC 24/7 Support Ensures Clients, Customers Receive the Highest Quality Service, Captions
VITAC, the largest provider of captioning products and services in the United States, has been providing accessibility services and solutions for more than 30 years. Our captioners keep a full schedule of program assignments, providing captions for more than 550,000 hours of programming each year for a wide variety of … Read More
The US Open, NCAA Football, the NFL, and a Busy End to August
The end of August means many things — students returning to classes, the last weeks of summer, and the busiest days of the year for VITAC captioners. As a 24/7, 365-day-a-year operation, busy days are nothing new to VITAC captioners, production coordinators, schedulers, and supervisors. This time of year, however, … Read More
Our Goal: Making the FIFA World Cup Accessible for All
The 21st edition of the FIFA World Cup – the single biggest tournament for the single biggest sport on the planet – begins today (June 14) in Russia as 32 national teams play 64 games for one championship trophy. The 2018 World Cup might be missing some big nations – … Read More
Refreshed VITAC Website Includes New Features, Revamped ‘Customer Corner,’ and Answers to your Questions
If you’ve tried picking up a few items at the local home improvement store these past few weekends (or, better yet, tried to find an empty parking space in their crowded lots), you know that spring cleaning season is upon us. Well, we noticed it, too, and decided to do … Read More
10 Simple Ways to Make a Captioner’s Job Easier (and Everyone Else Happier)
As captioners, we listen to people talking all day, and it’s our job to figure out how to translate that into written text. Everyone has shows they like and dislike, but some programs are simply easier to caption than others. The qualities that make for low-stress captioning tend to be … Read More
What’s in a Name: Rebranded Conference Rooms Honor DHOH Pioneers and Leaders
VITAC’s Greenwood Village office recently redesigned and renamed a number of its boardrooms, conference rooms, demo rooms, and training rooms to honor pioneers and noteworthy members of the deaf and hard-of-hearing community. Each room contains a photo of that room’s namesake as well as a brief description of why we … Read More
NAB Wrap-Up: Introducing VITAC Control Tower™, Captioning Major League Baseball Games, and Catching up with Old and New Friends
Though the 2018 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show wrapped up earlier this month, VITAC again would like to thank everyone who took the time at this year’s show to meet with us, learn more about our products and services, or just stop by to say “hello.” We were thrilled … Read More
Heads Up Daily: It’s (Mostly) Fun and Games Bringing Captions to eSports Show
When the average person hears “HUD,” they think of Housing and Urban Development, the Federal agency responsible for addressing America’s housing needs and enforcing fair housing laws. Isn’t that what we all think of when we hear “HUD?” Well, maybe not all. In VITAC Offline, “HUD” stands for something entirely … Read More
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