Our backyard in Maryland around dusk in late September 2017. In the distance, beyond our backyard and its shrubs and trees on a recently mowed lawn, low mist begins to form over a field of green grass.
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Sean Zdenek

soundwriting, visual design, inclusive media, rhetoric

  • Academic CV (pdf)
  • Reading Sounds (book website)
  • Accessible Podcasting
    • Introduction
    • Limiting Access: Technical access in the Podcasting Bible
    • “On the Fly” Podcasting
    • Podcasting 2.0: Towards an accessible Web
    • References
  • Captioning
    • Data Mining
    • Definitions
    • Manner of speaking
    • Music
    • Non-Speech
    • Speaker IDs
    • Timing
    • Visual Design
  • Fair use notice

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How many TV commercials are closed captioned?

Posted on November 6, 2010August 15, 2018 by Sean Zdenek Captioning, Legal, Stats

Recently, I conducted an informal survey of two hours of TV in an effort to track which and how many ads were closed captioned.

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Caption watch: Hulu.com

Posted on August 17, 2009August 15, 2018 by Sean Zdenek Captioning, Stats

Over the last ten days, the percentage of full episodes and movies with closed captions on Hulu 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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