Closed captions are crucial for the considering know-how of a lot of beings: anyone who watched Game of Thrones and wanted to know what was going on, every person who likes those out of context Twitter accounts, people who want to watch videos on the subway but don’t have their headphones, multitaskers, etc. Most importantly, though, they’re a stair toward accessibility for the more than 48 million deafen and hard of hearing people in the U.S ., and millions more across the globe.
” Videos without captions are absolutely inaccessible to deaf and hard of hearing parties ,” Howard A. Rosenblum, the CEO of the National Association of the Deaf, told Mashable over email.” Why would anyone want to exclude that many beings from their videos ?” Read more …
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