We offer several topics of discussion. Captioning will be provided by The Caption Center and description will be provided by Descriptive Video ServiceR both services of the Media Access Group at WGBH in Boston. The Media Access Group at WGBH will also provide closed captioning for the CBS News inaugural coverage. Hosted by Jim Lehrer of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, the PBS presentation will feature political analysts Mark Shields and Paul Gigot, as well as a panel of political historians, including Doris Kearns Goodwin, Haynes Johnson, Michael Beschloss, Richard Norton Smith and Roger Wilkins. I applaud WGBH and the NewsHour for including live description and captioning of the day's events on public television.
Closed captions display spoken dialogue as text on the television screen.
The live captions will be typed by specially trained stenocaptioners working from WGBH's Boston-based headquarters and broadcast simultaneously with the live program. The descriptive narration which will be provided on-site in Washington DC by an expert team of describers is audible during pauses in program dialogue and will identify speakers, describe settings and convey other visual information about the event. Members of the Media Access Group's collective staff represent the leading resources and experts in their fields. Funding for closed captioning and descriptive narration of Inauguration 2001 is provided by the U.S. Department of Education. All Rights Reserved.