Television – Emergency Info
Lessons Learned from "Katrita"

Northern Virginia Resource Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons

• Visual information not provided on TV

• Need for realtime captioning of all news programs

• Captions blocked crawls or other text and vice versa

• TVs in shelters didn't have captions

• Cable subscribers had access to much more information

• New Orleans couple needed sign language interpretation

• Sign language interpreter cut off screen