Thursday, April 05, 2012

Illinois Movie Captioning Settlement

See this story, which begins:
Hundreds of movie screens in Illinois will be equipped with technology to help residents with hearing and vision disabilities under a settlement announced Wednesday by Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan.

As part of the settlement, Kansas City, Mo.-based AMC Theatres will provide personal captioning services and audio-description technology at all of its Illinois movie theaters, which include 460 movie screens. The services will be available by 2014 at nearly all theaters and at all listed showings. 
Before the settlement, 21 of the 246 movie theaters in Illinois offered closed captioning and 10 offered audio description.

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