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That Standards Guy is the online persona of Karl Dawson, a web developer living and working in Ipswich, England.

I'm a member of the Guild of Accessible Web Designers and the Web Standards Group and team member at Accessites—an awards site to recognise accessible and usable websites.

I specialise as a front-end developer and worry about the minutae of semantic (X)HTML and CSS, accessibility, microformats, typographic rhythm and grid design. I also care about the user experience and remind myself constantly of visitor site goals when working with clients and their aims.

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Captioning sucks

April 1st, 2008

Today, Joe Clark is saying “Captioning Sucks!” with a new website.

Why does it suck?

There’s not enough of it.

  • Your complaints are ignored (if you can even manage to file a complaint).
  • Captions are hard to read, mostly because of lousy fonts.
  • Deaf people settle for less than 100% captioning.
  • Broadcasters use the wrong kind of captioning (like scrollup or real-time captioning).
  • So-called regulators let broadcasters get away with murder—because regulators and broadcasters play a game of musical chairs and swap positions over time.
  • And finally… there are no standards.

Joe’s research project, the Open & Closed Project aims to solve that last problem and Captioning Sucks exists to raise awareness on just one of the issues the Project will address.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 at 8:00 am and is filed under Accessibility.

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