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TAP Plus grants is sponsored by TDF (Theatre Development Fund) and New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). TAP Plus grants provide funds to add captioning services to public cultural events in New York State, specifically to increase attendance by people with hearing loss. This directly addresses accessibility for a specific population.
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Accessibility Grants | TDF Helping you grow your audience We’re here to say: It’s for all of us. Need help increasing attendance by people with hearing loss? TAP Plus grants provide funds to add captioning services to public cultural events in New York State.
TDF has partnered with the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) to provide a limited number of grants per year to organizations that show a need for captioning services. Any institution that currently receives NYSCA funding is eligible. Performing arts events must be open to the public in New York State.
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Open Captioning Basic Information Sheet Open captioning is a text display of words and sounds heard during a performance or event. The display is positioned so that it’s visible to individuals in a particular seating area. It is considered passive assistance, a service that is there to use or ignore.
Open captioning is a service for people with hearing loss who use assistive listening devices, hearing aids, cochlear implants, sign language or lip read. It provides the broadest access to people who are d/Deaf or have hearing loss. Approximately 20% or 48 million Americans have hearing loss as per the Hearing Loss Association of America .
Roughly 1% of this demographic uses American Sign Language as cited in Psychology Today ‘s 2023 article “ Not Everyone With Hearing Loss Knows Sign Language . ” How can my venue offer it? For do-it-yourself open captioning, you can use PowerPoint slides, a projector and drop-down screen visible to people with hearing loss in a designated seating area.
For open captioning provided by an independent, professional caption operator who will do all the prep work and bring state-of-the-art equipment, TDF’s longtime service provider for live theatre performances is c2. Contact: David Chu, davidchu. 2@gmail.
com , 917-733-3515 c2 pioneered and introduced live theatrical captioning for patrons with hearing loss and is responsible for launching theatre captioning programs around the country. The company has collaborated with theatres nationwide, providing live on-site captioning, digital captioning and subtitled captioning.
Work includes live open captioning on Broadway, Off Broadway, national performing arts venues and touring houses, and top-shelf regional theatres. c2 remains dedicated to maintaining the artistic integrity and authentic experience of live theatre, ensuring that all audience members can enjoy the performance equally. How can my venue offer unscripted open captioning?
Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART), also called open captioning, live captioning or real-time captioning, is the general name of the system that court reporters, steno captioners, voice writers and others use to convert speech to text. The text appears in real time, while the words or speakers are heard, on a big screen that everyone can see. CART can also be displayed on a laptop or a mobile device.
TDF uses TotalCaption for unscripted events. Contact: Lauren Schechter, lauren@totalcaption. com , 201-301-2435, TotalCaption.
com How else can my venue support patrons with hearing loss? If possible, providing an assistive listening device (ALD) in conjunction with open captioning is optimal. Levels of hearing loss vary, and any opportunity to take in sound is important.
Require an advance reservation for assistive listening units to ensure you have enough on hand. Tickets should be available for purchase online. For in-person ticket sales, a hearing loop system is recommended for the customer service area as well as the event seating area.
Open captioning service fees* • Independent contractor captioning for one performance (script formatting, previewing, synchronized text scrolling with display): $1,500- $2,000 • Independent contractor captioning for second performance of the same production: $1,000-$2,000 * = pricing is approximate and subject to change.
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According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Any institution that currently receives NYSCA funding. Performing arts events must be open to the public in New York State. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
Applications for TAP Plus grants are due January 1, 2027. Build your timeline backwards from this date to cover registrations, approvals, and final submission checks.
TAP Plus grants is funded by TDF (Theatre Development Fund) and New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
This opportunity targets applicants in New York. If your organization operates elsewhere, check the official notice for location requirements.
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