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 ...