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Live Closed Captioning Blunders Explained

The captions are horrible!  Why can’t they spell?  These are the valid questions asked when watching live closed captioning of…

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New Legislation Expands Access to Closed Captioning

On Wednesday, March 13, Senator Tom Harkin introduced two bills that will expand access to closed captioning and video description…

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Live Spanish Translation via Captions: Reaching Bilingual Audiences in Real Time

Editor’s note (Updated November 2025): This article was originally published in 2013 and has been fully revised to reflect today’s…

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The Simplicity of HTML5 and Internet Closed Captioning

Editor’s note (Updated November 10, 2025): This article was originally published in 2012 and has been fully revised to reflect…

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It’s Greek To Me

Does it seem like working in the television broadcast industry is a bit like learning a second language?  It certainly…

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Closed Captions Hit Home

My grandfather is a soft-spoken former Marine and my father has carried on the tradition of both soft-spoken tendencies as…

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NAD Advocates for Access to Quality Captions

On June 5, 2012, the National Association of the Deaf testified before the US Copyright Office. They argued that closed…

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Internet-Protocol Delivered Programming Rules

Are you familiar with IP-delivered programming? This includes all videos that are distributed via the Internet (where you watch the…

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Flash Your Captions to The World

Though we are stuck in one location with one official language in one country, it doesn't mean the videos that…

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The Stewie Effect

In the genre of surreal cartoon humor there seems to be some debate over the creation and upkeep of closed…

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