I work with CaptionAccess, which provides the type of services covered in the article. One reason there isn't more captioning is because people associate captioning with disabled people and accessibility.
The article began with people looking into captioning as a means of meeting an accessibility need (a speaker losing a hearing aid) and ended with the discovery that there are many other benefits beyond accessibility. It was a great read and everyone won. Many planners never get to that point.
The lack of widespread real-time captioning isn't a technical or cost issue, it's an education issue.
Hi captdeaf, would you please email me at liamotootle@gmail.com? Several of my friends are RIT graduates and our circles of acquaintances may overlap. I'd also like to ask some questions about your deaf office and the CI, if you don't mind. Thanks!
Is it possible the side projects are not interesting enough? If they feel like work, rather than fun, it may be hard to keep plugging away at them after a long day of coding.
I have fun working on it but I think having a partner would really energize me after a day's work. Unfortunately, living in Alabama makes it hard to find a partner. I've made contacts over the net but they tend to fizzle out after a couple weeks. Being solo means isolation and that definitely kills some of the fun for me.
Having a partner is amazing. Whenever I feel down or just too tired to get things done, I go & talk to my partner to get myself fired up again. If you don't have a business partner, maybe you can find someone who works in the same field & just meet up for drinks & bullshitting from time to time?
The article began with people looking into captioning as a means of meeting an accessibility need (a speaker losing a hearing aid) and ended with the discovery that there are many other benefits beyond accessibility. It was a great read and everyone won. Many planners never get to that point.
The lack of widespread real-time captioning isn't a technical or cost issue, it's an education issue.