Media Access Mobile

The Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) at the WGBH Educational Foundation has developed an impressive mobile system to enhance the experience for visitors to cultural institutions who are deaf, hard-of-hearing, blind, visually impaired, or who speak languages other than English. The innovative technology from NCAM, dubbed "Media Access Mobile," provides synchronized text (captions, subtitles or audio descriptions) in any combination of languages, all provided simultaneously, over a WiFi network and displayed on iPod Touches which are provided to visitors on-site. For more information, please visit NCAM at http://ncam.wgbh.org, or send e-mail to ncam@wgbh.org.

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