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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Leila Hanaumi, an American Sign Language performer in the "Barbie" ASL cut, poses with a large Barbie box at Regency Westwood ...

Zeinabu irene Davis’ “Compensation” premiered at film festivals 25 years ago, but only now is it receiving theatrical distribution from Janus Films. Its big-screen debut comes in tandem with its ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. - Motion picture theaters in Washington State would be required to provide open caption screenings and closed caption technology if a new bill becomes law. Under SB 5486, theaters with ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nine-year-old actor Oceana Matsumoto signed emphatically to her father, posing for a snapshot in the lobby of Westwood’s Regency Village Theater, where hundreds of fans had come to catch a special ...

Watch how a restoration of the silent film-inspired “Compensation” was rejuvenated by an innovative use of new technology. But for Davis, the biggest improvement stemmed from what open-caption ...