There is an expression "Nothing about us, without us." Today's Accessibility NYC Meetup features a deaf presenter talking about captioning. <https://isoc.live/14100/%20https:/livestream.com/internetsociety2/iheartcc> On *Tuesday July 13 2021* at *7pm EDT* (23:00 UTC) the *Accessibility NYC Meetup <https://www.meetup.com/A11yNYC>* (A11yNYC) hosts an online meetup ‘*I Heart CC: Why and How to Caption Videos Folks Love <https://www.meetup.com/A11yNYC/events/278476162/>*‘. Presenter *Meryl Evans* will share actual captioned clips from shows taking place in New York, and answer questions such as: - Why do I want to caption my videos? (Besides accessibility, of course!) - How do captions work? - What are my options for captioning my videos? - How do I create awesome captions? The meetup will be webcast live via a partnership with the *Internet Society Accessibility SIG <https://a11ysig.org/>*. *LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/iheartcc <https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/iheartcc> *(Open Captions / ASL) *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM: https://www.meetup.com/A11yNYC/events/278476162/ <https://www.meetup.com/A11yNYC/events/278476162/> (Closed captions / ASL)* *REAL TIME TEXT: http://streamtext.net/player?event=a11ynyc <http://streamtext.net/player?event=a11ynyc>* *TWITTER: #Captioned @a11ynyc <https://bit.ly/3cPwYhE> @merylkevans <https://twitter.com/merylkevans> @A11ysig #Accessibility #a11y* *SIMULCASTS* *https://youtu.be/6Jbk84NAKOc <https://youtu.be/6Jbk84NAKOc> *(Comments monitored) *https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/isocny/live <https://www.facebook.com/isocny/live>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/iheartcc <https://archive.org/details/iheartcc>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14100/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -