Season 6 of "Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi," Is Available with AD
The most recent season of "Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi" is premiering with audio description created by Dicapta and will be available on PBS stations and the PBS Passport app.
The All4Access Clearinghouse Catalog Is Now Available!
The catalog includes information about the accessibility assets (captions, audio descriptions, and sign language) hosted by All4Access.
Wireless Emergency Alerts Will Now Include ASL and 13 Other Languages
The Federal Commission is taking steps to ensure that Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEAs) become more accessible and user-friendly..
Alice Cogswell and Anne Sullivan Macy Act reintroduced to U.S. House and Senate
On September 27, the bipartisan bill Alice Cogswell and Anne Sullivan Macy Act, aimed to improve services and education opportunities for students who are deaf, blind, hard of hearing, visually impaired and deafblind, was reintroduced to the U.S. House and Senate by U.S. Representatives Matt Cartwright and David McKinley, along with Senators Edward J. Markey and Shelley Moore Capito.
Another Successful Advisory Group Meeting!
In early September, Dicapta held its annual meeting with the Advisory Group of the EnhAccess project, TV Access (grant H327C210001) funded by the U.S. Department of Education.
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Dicapta Partners with Sesame Workshop to Enhance Accessibility in Children's Programming
The partnership aims to make Spanish-language versions of Sesame's shows more inclusive and accessible to a wider audience by incorporating audio descriptions (AD) and closed captions (CC) into several of their series.
Sesame Workshop and DICAPTA Collaborate To Increase Accessibility of Sesame Street Content For Children With Disabilities
Spanish-language videos will be available with descriptive audio and captions, while emotional well-being content will have audio description and ASL versions
Pragda and Dicapta continue their collaboration
Dicapta is now working on creating audio descriptions for a new group of films from Pragda, the leading educational film distributor for the newest Latin American, Spanish, and Latinx cinema.
How to provide feedback to improve accesibility
Here are some tips for gathering feedback from users with disabilities to ensure a truly inclusive and accessible user experience.