Durateq Benefits

WHY YOU SHOULD ROLL OUT DURATEQ LIVE MOBILE CAPTIONING FOR THE FANS

• ADA Title II & Title III require that public accommodations must furnish auxiliary aids when necessary to ensure effective communication with individuals with hearing, vision, or speech impairments, unless an undue burden or fundamental alteration would result. NAD is targeting stadiums for action.
• Estimate as high as 17% to 20% of the public has some form of hearing difficulties from the profoundly deaf to undiagnosed hearing loss.
• Provide equal access to your media experience to disabled fans, meeting ADA requirements, on consumer devices over your WiFi network.
• Deliver real-time captioning to deaf and hard of hearing fans.
• Freedom to sit anywhere in the stadium and receive captioning, assistive listening, and audio description on a DURATEQ device.
• Freedom to bring your own WiFi enabled device for captioning services. (i.e. iPhone, iPod Touch, Blackberry or Windows devices.
• Re-broadcast your PA system announcements at assistive listening decibel levels over headsets.
• Re-broadcast your choice of play-by-play radio announcers for blind and low sight fans (audio description).
• Most of the public today are comfortable using handheld electronics and it is natural for them to refer to one throughout their day.