Yahoo Expands Video Captioning for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People
May 19 2015 - 3:17PM
Business Wire
Adds captions to videos from partners including
The New York Times, The Associated Press, Reuters and more.
Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) is advancing digital accessibility by
captioning thousands of videos every month, which can be viewed on
the company’s websites and through the Yahoo Screen mobile app for
iOS and Android.
Yahoo now offers captions on videos from a variety of partners,
including: The New York Times, the Associated Press on Yahoo News,
Reuters, CNBC and many others. Yahoo also provides captioned movie
trailers, a service long-desired by deaf and hard-of-hearing
moviegoers.
Yahoo continues to provide captioned versions of every Saturday
Night Live episode in the show’s 40-year history. Yahoo also
delivers captions for its own original series and programs,
including Community, Sin City Saints, Other Space, Yahoo News with
Katie Couric, many Yahoo Finance videos, tech reports from Yahoo
Tech Editor-in-Chief David Pogue, TV in No Time, Trending Now and
many more.
Users can watch these shows anytime, anywhere by using the Yahoo
Screen app on iOS, Android, Apple TV, TiVo, Xbox 360 and the Yahoo
Screen web site. Captions are easily accessed by clicking the CC
symbol in the video player control bar or turning captions on in
the mobile device's settings menu.
About Yahoo
Yahoo is a guide focused on making users' daily habits inspiring
and entertaining. By creating highly personalized experiences for
our users, we keep people connected to what matters most to them,
across devices and around the world. In turn, we create value for
advertisers by connecting them with the audiences that build their
businesses. Yahoo is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and
has offices located throughout the Americas, Asia Pacific (APAC)
and the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) regions. For more
information, visit the pressroom (pressroom.yahoo.net) or the
Company's blog (yahoo.tumblr.com).
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