Captions for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Viewers

This 2017 article by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders gives an overview of captions for people with hearing loss.

The article includes the following topics:

  • Edited and verbatim captions
  • Electronic newsroom captions
  • Open and closed captions
  • Real-time captions
  • Rear-window captions
  • Telephone captions
  • Legal requirements for captions
  • Research on captions


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Language, Culture & Diversity
Topic
Hearing Loss
Audience
Patients and Health Care Consumers, Families and Caregivers, Communication and Plain-Language Professionals
Setting
General / Multiple Settings
Level
Foundational