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Three audience members sit looking at the big screen, while wearing WatchWord smart glasses. The "WatchWord Closed Captions” logo in white sits at the bottom of the image, under their faces.

WatchWord: Closed-caption Glasses Transform Cinema Experience for Deaf Community

Even with the advent of captions, a trip to the cinema for anyone who is part of the hearing-impaired community can be a very restrictive experience. Captions – which not only include all spoken dialogue, but written descriptions of sound effects, music and even emotions – can be delivered in two wa…
Audiovision

Film Festival for Blind Highlights France’s Accessibility Gap

Paris is currently hosting its 6th annual film festival blind and visually impaired people at the UGC Gobelins cinema. The event is arranged by l’Association Valentin Haüy (AVH) and this year sponsored by Luc Besson, whose films “Lucy” and “Taken 3” are being shown. However,…
Turist Force Majeure

Swedish Subtitling of Swedish Films Causes Controversy

From today all Swedish films screened by Sweden’s largest cinema chain SF Bio will be subtitled in Swedish. Yes, all. While foreign films have always been subtitled rather than dubbed in Sweden (except animation for children), the decision to introduce same-language subtitling for ALL screenin…
12 Years A Slave With Subtitles

Digital Cinema is Still Failing Deaf Patrons

Who remembers Dolby’s ScreenTalk ? Ten years ago it was a revolutionary system whereby using a small projector subtitles could be projected onto the bottom of a screen showing 35mm film, or displayed through a reflective system mounted at the rear of the cinema, enabling deaf and hearing impai…

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