I just posted this message to the captioning discussion list and am re-posting it here because of its importance:

Reported in today's Washington Post:
"CBS To Make a Soap for the Smaller Screen"

And do you think that original content is going to be accessible to the deaf?? NOPE!

Not only do we now have to worry about original content being placed on the web without captions, we now have to worry about missing out on ORIGINAL content broadcast only on mobile phones!

Of course the captions, if there were any, would be too small and difficult for deaf people to read on cell phones! We need to pressure the FCC or Congress to mandate that any original content produced for cell phones MUST also be posted on the web by the cell phone company in a captioned format. People would have to enter a username/password combination in order to see the content. I don't have any other ideas for getting deaf people access to this new source of broadcast media.