Karen Quinones, the deputy director of the Mayor’s Office of Deaf, DeafBlind, & Hard of Hearing, used to have a hard time when she went to the movies. As a deaf person, she was sometimes forced to use ...

These special seats can be purchased online, where they are marked with an “Open Captioning” pop-up, or at the Circle in the Square Theatre box office. Captions will be displayed from a permanent ...

Cape Cod Theatre Company/Harwich Junior Theatre is introducing open captioning for select performances. The theater successfully piloted open captioning with the October production of "Clue" and will ...

SEATTLE — The new year brings good news for those who love movies but are deaf or hard of hearing: Enacted Jan. 1, a new state law will increase the number of movie screenings using open captions, and ...

Open caption screenings spread to theaters across the country, making movies more accessible and drawing in captions-loving movie viewers. But some fear it’s changing the movie theater experience. In ...

Open captioning will now be available during select showtimes at 240 AMC theatres in more than 100 U.S. markets, the company announced in a press release Friday. "By adding open captions to the ...

If you’re among those who can’t watch a movie without subtitles, the Amherst Cinema has you covered. Starting Oct. 29, the cinema is offering Open Caption Tuesdays, an effort to make movies more ...

Since 2021, Jacob Leffler has advocated for Maryland movie theaters to make moviegoing more accessible for deaf and hard of hearing people. In the last three years, legislation to require theaters to ...

LANSING, Mich. (WNEM) – State senators are considering a bill that would mandate open movie captioning screenings in theaters across Michigan. The measure aims to increase access to movies for the ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Lawmakers in Olympia are considering a bill that would require movie theaters to offer captioning for all movies that have it available. If passed as is, the bill would come with ...