Gary D. Robson is one of the foremost experts in the field of closed captioning. He was the 1997 recipient of the Telecommunications for the Deaf Andrew Saks Engineering Award for "outstanding contributions in improving visual accessibility to information via realtime captioning for deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans.? An author of two books and over 50 articles on captioning-including the World Book Encyclopedia entry-he also designed closed captioning software which became the standard tool for the industry. Gary is an independent captioning consultant in Montana.
Part I: Overview of Closed Captioning
Why Closed Captioning?
A Brief History of Captioning
Part II: Captioning Law
Overview of U.S. Captioning Law
The Americans with Disabilities Act
The Telecommunications Act of 1996
Other FCC Rulings
Part III: Captioning Technology
Where the Captions Live: A Line 21 Overview
Encoding, Decoding, Troubleshooting
Generating Captions in Realtime
Part IV: Related Technologies
Captions in Internet Streaming
Web Site Accessibility
Movie Theater Captioning
Live Event Captioning
Video Description for the Blind
Part V: Captioning Around the World
Part VII: Appendices, Glossary, and Index