As part of the Open & Closed Project, Joe Clark has released a new site, Captioning Sucks, to highlight the shoddy state of captions in broadcasting. Here’s why captioning sucks:
- 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.
Head over to Captioning Sucks to find out more about this problem which affects millions of people. While you’re there you can enjoy the Comic Sans goodness – anyone who knows Joe’s interest in typography will realise there must a very good reason for that (it’s not an April Fool).
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“While you’re there you can enjoy the Comic Sans goodness – anyone who knows Joe’s interest in typography will reali[z]e there must a very good reason for that”: Well, yes, there was. And it’s only on the homepage, you’ll note.
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Indeed there was (I did read the about the design page). I thought others might be intrigued and have a look themselves.
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I am agree with that they are hard to read mostly because of lousy fonts and some ties regulators and broadcasters play a game of musical chairs and swap positions over time.
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