[Athen] Live captioning theater and music events

[National Deaf Center]

Greetings, T.M.

The National Deaf Center <https://www.nationaldeafcenter.org/> (NDC) saw
your question above, and we would like the opportunity to provide you with
resources to ensure your shows are accessible for deaf participants. To
ensure we provide you with the right resources, we do have a few questions:


   1.

   We don’t see the word sustainable used to describe accommodations or
   access.  Please tell us what you mean by this.
   2.

   What is the goal or purpose of captions in languages other than English?
   3.

   If the captions are intended for deaf* attendees, do you want the
   captions to be in the language of the show (for example, if the show has
   spoken French) or do you want the captions to show a translation of the
   spoken foreign language into English for all to understand?


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include people who may identify as deaf, deafblind, deafdisabled, hard of
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U.S. who may have implemented live-captioning for shows. You can join the
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On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 4:01 PM Weissenberger, Todd M <
todd-weissenberger at uiowa.edu> wrote:


> Hello,

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> Can anyone comment on a sustainable approach to live event captioning? We

> have a couple of units that would like to start captioning live theater and

> music performances. Some of these performances are in languages other than

> English, and they may or may not have lyrics or scripts from which to adapt

> captions. The music performances may include choral/chamber and operas.

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> Any help is greatly appreciated.

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> Best,

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> Todd

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> *T.M. Weissenberger*

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> IT Accessibility Coordinator

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> Information Security and Policy Office

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> University of Iowa

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> 319-384-3323

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> he/him/his

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