As the largest provider of closed captioning in the United States, we often get questions about the services we provide, how captions work, and the ease in which captions can be added to all content, just to name a few. To better help caption consumers and clients understand our wide … Read More
VITAC Named Recipient of the Center for Hearing & Deaf Services’ Richard J. Follett Memorial Award
Award Recognizes VITAC’s Commitment and Service to HDS, Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Community VITAC, the largest captioning company in the United States, is proud to be the recipient of the Richard J. Follett Memorial Award from the Center for Hearing & Deaf Services, Inc. (HDS). VITAC was a unanimous selection for … Read More
ADA Round-Up: Harvard, MIT Captioning Suits, Employee Accessibility Claims
Welcome to newest edition of our new monthly feature at VITAC.com that highlights recent news, updates, events, and rulings regarding the Americans with Disabilities Act. Harvard University, MIT Closed Captioning Suit Lawsuits against Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) alleging that the schools failed to caption its … Read More
Doing Captions Right: Captioning Standards and Best Practices for Television
As the largest captioning company in the United States, we often get questions from clients and consumers regarding the basic rules, requirements, and regulations that govern captions. VITAC has worked with caption clients, viewers, and advocates for more than 30 years, and though not all video must be captioned by … Read More
VITAC Unveils VPC Control Tower™ at this Year’s NAB Show
Las Vegas is home to a number of popular, groundbreaking performances, such as Cirque du Soleil, Blue Man Group, and Penn & Teller. So what better place for VITAC to roll out a showstopper of our own? VITAC was proud to unveil the newest breakthrough technology in the VITAC Power … Read More
VITAC Announces VPC Control Tower™, Next Generation Technology, Always-On Connections, Captioning Reliability
VPC Control Tower Represents the Latest Addition to the VITAC Power Connect™ Line of Products VITAC Corp., the largest captioning company in the United States, providing over 30 years of accessibility services and solutions for more than 1,500 clients, has released the newest breakthrough technology in the VITAC Power Connect™ … Read More
Cities Signing Up for Mandatory Captions on All Public Televisions
Seattle, Washington, passed a bill that requires televisions in all of the city’s public spaces to show closed captioning whenever those TVs are on. This includes bars, restaurants, fitness centers, and hospital waiting rooms. Seattle businesses already are required by law to turn on closed captioning if someone requests they … Read More
ADA Round-Up: Bomb Cyclones, Website Accessibility, and Increased Lawsuits
Today we launch a new monthly feature at VITAC.com that highlights recent news, updates, events, and rulings regarding the Americans with Disabilities Act. This month we look at recent news on emergency interpreters, website accessibility challenges, and ADA lawsuits. Bomb Cyclone Accessibility Concerns A Colorado organization voiced concerns over the lack … Read More
Captioning the NCAA March Madness Tournament a True Team Effort
By now, everyone should have completed their NCAA basketball tournament predictions. And, sure, all those hours spent researching shooting percentages and turnover ratios are certain to pay off when you become the first person to ever pick that perfect bracket. It can happen. Keep telling yourself that. Though there are … Read More
VITAC Celebrates 33 Years of Top-Quality Captions, Accessibility Solutions
VITAC is celebrating our 33rd birthday this month, and please forgive our lack of modesty, but we look pretty good for 33, if we don’t say so ourselves. VITAC was founded on the vision that technology could deliver a new level of accessibility to those in the deaf and hard-of-hearing … Read More
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