Deaf Youth in the News

TECHNOLOGY

Deaf Youth from the California School for the Deaf and the YouTube Captioning
For years, the Deaf Community has been seeking greater access to videos shown on the internet. YouTube has developed a new technology that allows videos with sound to be automatically captioned. For the first time in the history of technology, it is as easy as pressing a button on the YouTube program to receive captions. The national press coverage about the deaf youth from California School for the Deaf appears on the following websites:

• Tech Crunch
• BBC
• Washington Post
• San Jose Mercury
• SignCasts
• Mashable
• Newser
• Videophones for Deaf People