Blog Posts

Mar 22, 2020
Caption every screen.
Mar 20, 2020
Positioning and styling captions when speakers overlap and interrupt each other
Feb 6, 2019
Published: Special issue on disability and technical communication
Feb 6, 2019
My interview with KairosCast
Aug 17, 2018
Published: Designing Captions — A new article on enhanced captioning
Aug 6, 2016
Cripping closed captioning: Experiments with type, icons, and dynamic effects
Apr 14, 2016
Chirp! Captioning BB-8 in
Jan 7, 2016
Do sirens always wail?
Dec 18, 2015
When a yellow subtitle meets a character from
Oct 18, 2015
Tracking sonic timelines in closed captioning
Oct 9, 2015
Closed captions as identity markers (leitmotifs)
Oct 8, 2015
Subtitles as visual art
Oct 7, 2015
Reading Sounds: A new book and website on closed captioning
May 9, 2012
“The main factor that drives captioning quality is what clients are willing to pay for it.”
Mar 31, 2012
Drunk speech but sober captions: How manner captions do the heavy lifting
Mar 6, 2012
The power of dots and dashes to tell the future
Feb 24, 2012
Humanizing nameless speakers
Jan 13, 2012
“That whole thing’s your name?” Captioning names in
Jan 6, 2012
“Subtitles I like to ride on”: When medium awareness extends to subtitles
Nov 4, 2011
Captioned hypnosis
Oct 28, 2011
Closed captioners don’t caption sounds.
Sep 16, 2011
Busy signal or engaged tone? Captions, language variety, and localized accessibility
Aug 4, 2011
Captioned silence?
Jul 14, 2011
Genre-defining sounds, even when they lie to us
Jul 4, 2011
In a manner of speaking
Jul 2, 2011
Logocentrism: The tendency to privilege speech over non-speech in closed captioning
May 1, 2011
Captioning the faintest sounds when they’re part of a repetitive series
Apr 14, 2011
Captioned puns and wordplay
Mar 16, 2011
Captioned irony: How captions manipulate narrative time and viewers’ knowledge
Feb 27, 2011
Iambic pentameter captions?
Feb 26, 2011
[Groan] or Ahh? Series awareness and alternative captions
Feb 10, 2011
Sonic allusions and cultural literacy for captioners
Feb 4, 2011
The running gag principle: Caption the series, not the episode
Jan 30, 2011
Zoom Zoom: Selling caption space
Jan 22, 2011
Captioning 101: When music lyrics trigger an explosion, you just might want to caption them.
Jan 2, 2011
Stylistic standards for closed captioning and data mining
Dec 19, 2010
Why that zombie is really moaning (and not groaning)
Nov 12, 2010
If it weren’t for Speaker IDs, I’d have no idea what’s going on
Nov 6, 2010
How many TV commercials are closed captioned?
Oct 5, 2010
Dialogue that wasn’t intended to be read
Oct 1, 2010
What the speaker really says doesn’t matter?
May 2, 2010
Captioned thematics: How captions make interpretative patterns visible
Jan 11, 2010
Captioning the backchannel: How captions clarify and equalize sounds
Nov 21, 2009
Overcaptioning: Which sounds are significant?
Sep 26, 2009
Twilight: Captioning the “gaspiest” movie ever
Aug 23, 2009
Prematurely revealing the natives as cannibals in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Aug 17, 2009
Caption watch: Hulu.com
Aug 15, 2009
Exploring Twilight and music lyrics through closed captions
Aug 14, 2009
If movie characters could read closed captions, they’d glimpse the future
Aug 12, 2009
How captions tell the future
Aug 11, 2009
Whispers and other sounds you were never meant to hear
Jun 4, 2008
Podcasting and embodiment
May 28, 2008
Audio description as technical communication