Have you ever watched a newscast with closed captioning?
Closed-captioning technology has been available on every television since 1993. KVUE was among the first in the country to provide the service. The station provides the very same scripts read by the news anchors via closed captioning. Star Furniture and Velocity Credit Union, and KVUE in partnership make this service available to the deaf and hard of hearing community.
As the anchor reads the prepared news story, an electronic version of the script is encoded into the signal KVUE broadcasts. The script contains every word of the written story, including comments made by those interviewed. Each KVUE weather forecast has prepared scripts to allow captioning to contain the same information the meteorologist speaks out loud.
Of course, ad-lib comments and live on-the-scene reports are not pre-scripted, and will not be accurately captioned inside the newscast. Instances where accurate transcripts are not available will be noted in the captioning.
The lag time between what is said to when it appears on screen is about a second and half.
KVUE is committed to providing "live" closed captioning during emergency situations in order to keep our viewers informed.
In Texas, one in nine people has hearing disabilities.
Have questions about closed captioning on KVUE? CONTACT US:
Telephone number: 512-459-6521.
Fax number: 512-533-2215.
Mailing Address: 3201 Steck Ave., Austin, Texas 78757
E-mail: captioning@kvue.com
Local links:
Travis County Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
The Texas Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (TCDHH)
Communication Service for the Deaf/Visual Communications
Disability Policy Consortium
La Vista Retirement Community for the Deaf
Access Austin Arts
Texas Association of the Deaf Home Page
Texas Society of Interpreters for the Deaf web
Texas links:
Texas deaf Caucus (TDC)
A Sign Language Company, McAllen
Contact Assistive Technology, Amarillo
Deaf America Home Page, Rowlett
Deaf Network Internet access provider and web creation, Dallas
Dallas & Fort Worth Deaf home page
El Paso Center for the Deaf (EPCD)
Deaf Council of Brazos Valley, College Station
Other links:
Deaf World Web
Tips for the Deaf/HoH travelers
Deaf Information Exchange
The National Association of the Deaf (NAD)
The Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID)
The National self help for the Hard of Hearing (SHHH)
National Theatre for the Deaf (NTD)
Gallaudet University, Washington DC
National Information Center on Deafness (NICD
The Canadian Hearing Society (CHS)
Deaf Action Center of Louisiana (DACLA)
Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf
Deaf Watch Newsletter Deaf Watch Award
Hearing Loss by Muriel
Information Regarding ADA acts
Cued Speech
