...a website devoted to exploring accessibility at the intersection of technology and rhetoric. The cornerstone of the site is, at least for now, a study of accessible podcasting. I welcome your feedback, either as comments posted to this site or via email.
Undercaptioning: Beyond subtitles in Curb Your Enthusiasm
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Overcaptioning: On significant vs. superfluous sounds
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Twilight: Captioning the “gaspiest” movie ever
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Exploring Pirates of the Caribbean 2 through closed captions
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Caption watch: Hulu.com
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. Still, Hulu has a long, long way to go. The news isn’t good for accessibility on the Web. Over the last ten days, as Hulu has regularly added new full episodes and movies, and removed others that have contractually expired, the percentage of full episodes and movies with closed captions has actually gone down. Overall, that percentage of cc content is embarrassingly low, hovering at around 4.5% for full episodes and 6.5% for movies — and appears to be on the way down. [...]
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Exploring Twilight through closed captions
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