Movie Theaters Equipped for the Blind or Deaf

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David Abel, Deaf, blind promised a better film experience
Theater chains add captions, narration. Boston Globe, July 30, 2010.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/07/30/deaf_blind_promised_a_better_film_experience/

Note:
(1) Barre, Massachusetts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barre,_Massachusetts
(2) Dating from 1634 and located in downtown, Boston Common is the oldest
city park in US.
(3) State of Arizona, ex rel. Terry Goddard, Attorney General v. Harkins
Amusement Enterprises, Inc., United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth
Circuit, Apr. 30, 2010.
http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2010/04/30/08-16075.pdf
("Because closed captioning and
audio descriptions are correctly classified as “auxiliary aids
and services” that a movie theater may be required to provide
under the ADA [Americans with Disabilities Act], we conclude the district
court erred in finding that these services are foreclosed as a matter of law
")

So, the report appears incorrect when it says, "In June, a federal appeals
court ruled * * *

(4) WGBH-TV is a public television station based in Boston.
(5) Massachusetts Commission for the Blind or for the Deaf and Hard of
Hearing are two separate state agencies.
(6) The yellow words appearing in the photograph are: "Welcome to Rear
Window. Please adjust your reflectors."

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Similar to closed caption in television, the technology for the deaf in theaters will be a bonanza to recently arriving foreigners who can read but can not comprehend spoken English, as well as a tool to learn English. Moviegoers from abroad should take advantage of it, the technology.

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: David Abel, Deaf, blind promised a better film experience
: Theater chains add captions, narration. Boston Globe, July 30, 2010.
: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/07/30/deaf_blind_promised_a_better_film_experience/
: (以下引言省略...)

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