Captioning / Closed Captioning |
Captioning; Captions for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Viewers; Closed Captioning |
A commonly-used symbol indicating that a program or movie is closed-captioned. Closed captioning (CC) allows deaf and hard of hearing / hearing-impaired people, people learning English as an additional language, people first learning how to read, people in a noisy environment, and others to read a transcript or dialogue of the audio portion of a video, film, or other presentation. As the video plays, text captions are displayed that transcribe, although not always verbatim, what is sai ...
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Captioning / Closed Captioning Organizations
- National Women's Health Information Center http://www.4woman.gov/
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Information Clearinghouse, NIDCD, NIH, HHS http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/misc/clearinghouse.asp

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