VITAC

VITAC is the largest provider of closed captioning in the USA, responsible for realtime captioning of over 260,000 hours of live TV programming per year, and creating verbatim, precisely timed captions for 31,000 hours of pre-recorded programming per year. Their customers include every major network, most cable channels, program producers, corporations, government agencies, and more. The company is headquartered in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.

VITAC is a member of the Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology, COAT, and a coalition of over 240 national, regional, state, and community-based disability organizations. COAT advocates for legislative and regulatory safeguards that will ensure full access by people with disabilities to evolving high speed broadband, wireless and other Internet Protocol (IP) technologies. Part of this initiative is the introduction of new legislation, HR3101.Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski has appointed three VITAC employees to serve a two-year term on the Video Programming and Emergency Access Advisory Committee (VPEAAC), an advisory committee required by the Twenty-first Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010 (the Accessibility Act).

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