For those of you who aren’t quite sure about the difference
between open and closed captions - or have simply not thought about it before –
open captioning displays the captions on the screen for everyone, whereas
closed captioning devices show captions to an individual.
If you follow us you know that we post the open captioned
movies for the coming week on Thursdays. We’ve been doing that for a while now.
And an occasional video of how they work, or info about new legislation. This
is one of those. The National Association of Theater Owners recently announced
that they would be expanding open caption showtimes in D.C. throughout the
summer as part of a pilot program. Sounds swell right? Well, maybe not. The members
of DC Deaf Moviegoers have a different point of view. Read the article here to
read about the possible ramifications: https://dcist.com/story/19/07/15/d-c-theaters-launched-an-open-caption-pilot-program-why-are-deaf-moviegoers-so-skeptical-of-it/
Let Us Know your thoughts on the article! I read through it
and definitely have thoughts;) Now I wanna hear yours!
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