Closed Captioning for all seeing individuals
by Pauline Harris
We know Closed Captioning (CC) is good for those persons who have troubles hearing and those who are deaf, if the CC is done correctly. Correctly means that what is in the CC is what is heard through voice and sound. CC is beneficial to those who can hear, too.
CC helps those individuals who can hear to assist in reading along with hearing. Those who have good hearing sometimes miss a word here and there, too. Or they can misinterpret what is being conveyed. For example, there are many words that sound similar, but they are defined differently. ‘They’re’ is ‘they are’. It sounds like there as the place holder. ‘Two, tew, too, and to’ are all words that sound alike and have different meanings.
If we have CC on all media with sound shown, we would be able to read the CC and know what the word that is being conveyed is.
The same would be true for sounds in the background, we would be told that a chainsaw or the pounding on the piano keys were the sounds.
CC helps those who are learning to read and those with audio difficulties to understand what is being said.
Closed Captioning is good for all seeing individuals.
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