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The sloppiest captions ever
 Accessible Rhetoric Having closed captions is always better than not having them at all. But sloppy captions -- that is, captions that are misspelled, ignore rules of capitalization, or are simply illegible in one way or another (low contrast, too small, all caps) -- show a lack of respect for viewers who use them. Sloppy captions imply that closed captions aren't really all that importa...Sun, Apr 18 2010 Caption watch: Hulu.com
Accessible Rhetoric At a time when so few content providers on the Internet are offering closed captioned content, Hulu.com seems to be leading the way. Hulu not only offers integrated support in their video interface for closed captions but also allows users to limit search results to closed captioned content. It's not easy to search for and [...]Tue, Aug 18 2009 If only movie characters could read closed captions…
Accessible Rhetoric If movie characters could read closed captions along with us, they’d be more efficient at fighting crime and solving mysteries. The world would be safer — as long as we didn’t let the bad guys read the captions too. Consider a very simple example, one which exemplifies the time traveling rhetoric of closed captioning. By this I simply mean that we sometimes know what’...Fri, Aug 14 2009 Captions tell the future
 Accessible Rhetoric Closed caption users can, under the best conditions, stay a beat ahead of everyone else, laughing at a joke, for example, before the punchline is spoken, or nodding in agreement before the speaker has finished making a point. In this way, captions tell the future, even if it's only the tiniest glimpse. Consider a clip from Taken, a 2008 film starring Liam Neeson as a ...Wed, Aug 12 2009 Some things you weren’t meant to hear
Accessible Rhetoric Consider the much-discussed whisper at the end of Lost in Translation, Sofia Coppola's critically acclaimed and prized 2003 film about two Americans who develop a friendship during lonely stays at a Tokyo hotel. The whisper was clearly not meant to be public, not meant to be captioned. The final scene is shared, though not with us, in a private language (the untransla...Wed, Aug 12 2009 Video: Captioning the cheese
Accessible Rhetoric Every feature-length movie distributed over the Internet needs to be closed captioned. That goes without saying. But there's a special category of movie -- the low-budget cheesy feature -- that may be inaccessible to all viewers if the movie's production values are not sufficiently high. I offer up as an example the movie Spill, a 1996 action flick starring former NFL...Fri, Aug 07 2009 XXX Captioning
Accessible Rhetoric Closed captions, when done well, provide access to dialogue and other important sounds for those who need them, such as deaf and hard of hearing viewers. But captions have the potential to do much more -- and to do so for a wide range of viewers. I'm interested in documenting the ways, big and small, that captions can make visible those layers of meaning that may not ...Fri, Aug 07 2009 Video: Captioning from beginning to end
Accessible Rhetoric Videos need to be closed captioned from the moment the first movie logo appears on the screen, particularly in cases where theme music or other important sounds are playing over logos for movie studios such as Warner Bros Pictures. Moreover, captions often need to do more than simply indicate that "[music plays]" or "[phone rings]." When background music, environmenta...Sat, Jul 25 2009 Having a voice in Second Life
Accessible Rhetoric In “Virtually Accessible,” a short article published in the Spring 2009 issue of Access: The inclusive design journal, Diane Carr reports on protests that erupted in Second Life among deaf and hard-of-hearing users when in 2007 “Second Life’s developers added a feature enabling residents to speak verbally to each other using microphones.” What&...Fri, Feb 20 2009 Captions on the side (literally)
Accessible Rhetoric I'd be interested in seeing the results of usability tests (if any) for NBC.com's video player, which has built-in support for closed captioning on full episodes. When activated by the user, the captions are displayed on the right side of the video player, off the display canvas itself, and scroll either up or down. The user [...]Thu, Jul 10 2008 Accessible podcasting — A preview
Accessible Rhetoric I just finished an article-length webtext on accessible podcasting. The webtext 1) is a critique of the dominant approach to podcasting, an approach that assumes (mistakenly) that every producer and subscriber can hear, see, and move well enough to manipulate a mouse, and 2) describes a set of solutions for making podcasts (both audio and [...]Fri, Jul 04 2008 Support for video annotations on YouTube
Accessible Rhetoric YouTube recently added support for video annotations and in-video links. Three types of annotations are supported: speech bubbles, notes, and spotlights. As Bill Creswell rightly pointed out a couple days ago, YouTube's implementation is similar to what users can do with “bubbles” on BubblePly.com. One key difference is that YouTube's annotatio...Wed, Jun 25 2008 Aggregating feeds to search for captioned web videos
Accessible Rhetoric On the subject of captioned programming on the Web, Closed Captioning Web suggests in a recent blog post that More major network channels are setting up video players on their sites..and the good news is, the players show captions! More and more captioned programming is now available through Fox.com (read the review at Disabled in the Digital Age) [...]Wed, Jun 25 2008 Deaf American Gladiator
Accessible Rhetoric While browsing Hulu.com the other day, I caught a glimpse (on the site's scrolling image bar) of what looked like a cochlear implant attached to the head of a contestant on American Gladiators. Because I have an ongoing interest in how deafness and cochlear implants are visually and discursively constructed in the media, I located [...]Wed, Jun 25 2008 |
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