November 6, 2010
How many TV commercials are closed captioned?
Recently, I conducted an informal survey of two hours of TV in an effort to track which and how many ads were closed captioned.
Access, sound, captioning, film/media. Sean Zdenek is an associate professor of technical and professional writing at the University of Delaware. His book, Reading Sounds: Closed-Captioned Media and Popular Culture, won the 2017 award for best book in technical or scientific communication from the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). He teaches technical writing, web accessibility, disability studies, sound studies, and AI literacy.
