As you may know, captioning is required for accessible audio/video presentations. The Open & Closed Project (from Joe Clark) explains the downfalls of captioning on the new web site Captioning Sucks! Reasons cited are as follows (and you’ll have to go to the site to fully understand!):
- Not enough of it
- They don’t listen
- It’s hard to read
- The wrong kind
- The fox is watching the hen house
- There are no standards