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.
