jtweigandt
Well-Known Member
Our next production (Elf) we will have one night with an ASL interpreter. I just had a discussion with a retired friend (fellow veterinarian) who has been semi profoundly deaf for life.
She functions well with hearing aids and lip reading. She told me her favorite method at the movie theater is the reverse captioning on the back wall that you read off a piece of plexi.
Decidedly low tech and fairly easy to implement.... except... for a musical, someone would have to go through the libretto and make a series of cues for whatever device for an operator to trigger.
Dumb question of the day. Do the publishing houses have this available as a resource already, or if you roll your own is there any legal peril involved with scanning and converting to a useful format.
This would mean that we could serve a wider variety of patrons and do it at every showing without being intrusive.. anyone doing this already???
She functions well with hearing aids and lip reading. She told me her favorite method at the movie theater is the reverse captioning on the back wall that you read off a piece of plexi.
Decidedly low tech and fairly easy to implement.... except... for a musical, someone would have to go through the libretto and make a series of cues for whatever device for an operator to trigger.
Dumb question of the day. Do the publishing houses have this available as a resource already, or if you roll your own is there any legal peril involved with scanning and converting to a useful format.
This would mean that we could serve a wider variety of patrons and do it at every showing without being intrusive.. anyone doing this already???