Wanted to take a moment to point out some additional movement to support captioning on the web: just read an article over at linux.com about a new mailing list and effort to bring captioning support to the free video codec Theora (which will be natively supported by Firefox in version 3.1).

This is important because Theora is an open-source (free!) video codec and having organizations such as Mozilla (who support Firefox) and websites like wikipedia.org use this format to display videos with captions is a terrific step!

So, we joined the new mailing list and hope you will too — we need to let the folks know that these efforts are important to us. As others have pointed out, sites like hulu and youtube are beginning to support/offer captions … let’s keep the ball rolling and let folks know that captions are important to everyone!

– Damon

PS: last month we added captions to all our videos (My Deaf Lady, NOYBTV: Season One, All I Want, and the Kondima Demo) and we subtitled the DVD (all by our self!) so we know it takes a bit of extra work, but it’s worth it!