The Caption Center at WGBH invented broadcast captioning, providing open captions on TV for the first time. Closed captions, which viewers can choose to turn on or off, came along around 1980.

Filmmaker Alison O’Daniel appears in the Next section of the Sundance Film Festival with “The Tuba Thieves,” an innovative feature commentary on deafness. Here, she writes about the agony of ...

It has been incredibly frustrating to see articles raving about the movies at the Library of Congress’s Mount Pony Theater. Those movies are inaccessible to people like me who are deaf. The solution ...

Marlee Matlin was the first ever deaf person to win an Oscar - she achieved this milestone in 1987, winning for her role in the movieChildren of a Lesser God. So she definitely knows a thing or two ...