captions history
Category: Other
Updated: 8 Dec 2017
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Created byGary Katsevman
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First Open Captions on The French ChefLine 21 captions
Reserved by FCCNational Captioning Institute
inaugurated by
Department of Health, Education, and Welfrare.First Fully Closed Captioned ShowReal-Time Live CaptionsTelevision Decoder Circuitry
Act of 1990Americans with Disabilities
Act of 1990Telecommunications Act of 1996Timed Text Working Group
charteredSMPTE-TTTwenty-First Century Communications
and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA)FCC grants SMPTE-TT
Safe-harbor from CVAAWebVTT chartered at the W3CTTML becomes
W3C RecommendationIMSC1 becomes
W3C Recommendation (copy)Work on IMSC1 beginsFirst draft of TTML
Initially DFXP
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