Sunshine Building
110 2nd Street SW #505
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Just ask!
Factoid: In New Mexico, there are over 130,000 hearing impaired individuals. (NM Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing)
Sunshine Building
110 2nd Street SW #505
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Just ask!
Factoid: In New Mexico, there are over 130,000 hearing impaired individuals. (NM Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing)
New Mexico Captioning and Realtime Provides Access In Any Setting:
Realtime technology has proven helpful for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals both in and out of court. Most of the more than 20 million deaf and hard-of-hearing people in the United States developed hearing loss after acquiring language skills. Many of them find it easier to read realtime text than to use American Sign Language. We use the same technology that produces realtime in court settings to produce live captions of television programs. In addition, realtime is used in many other applications to provide access for hard-of-hearing people in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act or for other purposes:
* Through realtime reporting, a hard-of-hearing pro se litigant was able to follow and deliver his own oral argument in Court. The technology also allowed him to respond to questions by the panel of judges.
* Realtime has allowed a hard-of-hearing appellate judge in Wisconsin to use the telephone, listen to proceedings and communicate with court personnel. In addition, he utilizes a realtime court reporter, like us, whenever he attends conferences.
* At least two court cases, one in Michigan and one in Texas, were appealed and retried because the deaf litigant didn't fully understand what went on in the first trial. Realtime played an integral part in the retrials, allowing those deaf litigants to understand and take part in their second trials.
* In Texas, realtime translation was used to caption jury selection proceedings for a deaf potential juror who wished to participate in a trial. The juror, who was not able to read sign language, followed the trial by reading the testimony on a computer screen placed in front of her.