Captioning the Catholic Mass

Who Uses CART (i.e. Captioning)?

"When an event needs to be made inclusive, projecting the CART display for the benefit of the entire room can be the best way to provide universal access for Deaf, late deafened, and hard of hearing people, as well as people who might have some degree of hearing loss but who don’t self-identify as hard of hearing or deaf. CART is also useful for English language learners and people with dyslexia, auditory processing disorder, or ADHD. When the CART display is available to every audience member, no one has to feel singled out or as if they’re demanding special privileges. Everyone benefits."

(Source: http://composition.al/blog/2014/05/31/your-next-conference-should-have-real-time-captioning/)

"For various reasons,

churches

have lagged behind wider

trends in

society to be inclusive of

people

with disabilities."

(Source: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/.VAfQ5P2ezRo)

Demo of Real time Captioning (aka Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART):

http://www.acscaptions.com/subpages/CART.asp (scroll down to find demo video, click on CC)

"With the growth of broadband access, improved software, and need for CART in many settings, providers are now offering remote CART services. The CART provider, located elsewhere, uses a telephone line {now evolved to wireless/wifi} to pick up audio and an Internet account to transmit the captions to a computer at the location where the deaf or hard of hearing individual needs the captions."

(Source: http://www.nvrc.org/interpreting-and-transliterating-services/cart/)

How do you make it Inclusive to all those who are deaf and hard of hearing?

"However, in order to serve ALL deaf, hard of hearing,

the hearing impaired or people with hearing loss

(whichever terms you choose), all of these accessible

solutions need to be provided, and the Deaf and

hearing impaired should always be placed down front

where they can use their eyes to see to hear and the

audio amplifiers to be picked up by their assistive

devices. Captions should be on the wall or a screen for

those who need to read what is being said."

(Source: http://limpingchicken.com/2014/01/16/deaf-discrimination-to-deaf/)

"What does it mean for communication to be “effective”? Simply put, “effective communication” means that whatever is written or spoken must be as clear and understandable to people with disabilities as it is for people who do not have disabilities."

(Source: http://www.ada.gov/pcatoolkit/chap3toolkit.htm)