September 16, 2011
Busy signal or engaged tone? Captions, language variety, and localized accessibility
On the need to consider differences among varieties of English when captioning non-speech sounds…
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.