#open captions

[nucipheram]

Video skit is by thepandaredd, I just added open captions

Lemme know if there’s anything I can fix up 👍

[danielnelsen]

none of you know what closed captions are 😭😭😭 please stop calling things closed captions when they’re really open captions. if you’re not sure, just call them captions. just saw a video where each line of open captions started with ‘cc:’… COME ON

closed captions are made separately to the video and can be toggled on or off, moved on the screen, changed font or colour, translated, etc

open captions are part of the video and can’t be adjusted in any way

common examples:

tiktoks have open captions. idk if tiktok has a closed caption system, but if it does i’ve never seen it (but i don’t use tiktok so i might have just not heard about it)

the youtube caption system is closed captions, but a lot of people put open captions on their videos and then don’t bother with closed captions because they think open captions are accessible. they’re not.

video descriptions that you type under a video aren’t even captions.

sure, open captions are generally better than nothing, but stop saying something is closed-captioned when it’s not

[danandfuckingjonlmao]

TUMBLR PHANNIES!

we gotta talk about captions and accessibility!!

i did this during my time on phannie twitter and now that i finally have my tumblr back, i’m doing it here.

when you are posting screen recordings from dnp videos and captions on youtube are available, PLEASE POST THEM WITH CAPTIONS! it takes 1 second to turn on cc on youtube. it’s the absolute bare minimum.

there are deaf/hoh phannies (i am one of them) and we need and deserve captions!! there are TONS of people who benefit from captions outside of people with physical hearing loss, like people with adhd, autism, sensory processing disorder, auditory processing disorder (which is a type of hearing loss but not physical—ears can hear but brain can’t), tbi, people who aren’t native english speakers (or whatever language content is in), and even hearing/neurotypical people/native speakers miss stuff!! literally everyone benefits from captions.

transcripts, image descriptions, captioning things yourself, and other types of accessibility features are essential for making things truly open for everyone, AND i recognise those things take more effort, so we DO NEED TO AIM FOR THAT and i’d love to open a conversation about it, because people deserve that effort, but as a START, PLEASE TURN ON CAPTIONS BEFORE YOU SCREEN RECORD.

if anyone has any questions i’m more than happy to chat and i imagine other disabled people in our community would like the opportunity to speak about their own needs. i don’t speak for all disabled people.

and my fellow disabled phannies, i love you SO MUCH and we deserve accessibility that we simply aren’t getting.

TURN ON CAPTIONS

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Open captions. Eye contact. ~6 minutes.

Summary: talking about content warnings specifically for photosensitivity triggers like flashing lights, making the point that simply putting up a warning at the beginning of a video or video game does not make that thing accessible, and there are better alternatives:

Avoiding using flashing if you can If you can't, putting a warning, with a countdown, ten seconds before the flashing starts, with a time stamp for when it's over, Making an alternate version of a video without flashing, and directing people to that.

Then he talks about how video game developers have found ways to make accessibility options available in games, so that proves its possible. And he finishes by talking about the statistics that show that people with photosensitive disabilities are a substantial demographic, so making your content accessible will broaden your audience.

[zorkat]

Closed/Open Captions in Brisbane Cinemas

Yesterday, I tried to attend Barbie but had to leave without seeing the film, due to a lack of Captiview devices available, as they were all being used and there was only ONE CC session scheduled on a Sunday, a week after the movie dropped. (Event Cinemas only had FIVE Captiview devices availble at their cinema in the middle of the third biggest city in Australia).

So, I decided to look up venues that offer Closed Captions (CC) that a deaf person such as myself could attend, if one wanted to see a movie with captions. Thought I'd share my findings in case anyone else is interested and to spread awareness. ❗️ ❗️ If this is TL;DR, skip to the second last big paragraph*** ❗️ ❗️ For those of you who aren't aware, a Captiview device is a small black and green LCD screen with three lines, with slits so that viewing your Captiview device shouldn't be visible by the people around you. (Though I have had someone complain to me that it was obstructing their view before. Sorry my disability is such a bother to you 🙄) Captiviews are used during CC sessions and you are the only person who can see the captions. 

Google tells me that there are four major cinema brands who offer CC & Captiview devices in Australia. Three of these are in Qld; Event Cinemas, Hoyts and Readings. I also found the name of another cinema, Palace Cinemas who supposely offer CC.Of these four, Event Cinemas has 27 locations in Qld, 10 of these are in Brisbane. Readings has five locations, two of which are in Brisbane and Palace has two in Brisbane.

Events, Hoyts and Reading all list CC sessions quite visibly on their websites, though to find them on Event, you do have to click the Accessibility page, whereas the others just simply list CC on their movie listings. The website for Palace doesn't even list if and when any CC sessions are on, with a website suggesting you call to find out. Yeah, great advice for deaf people to CALL someone on the phone to find out information. *scoffs*

❗️ ❗️ ***What I don't understand is why nobody is advertsing or even offering Open Captioned (OC) sessions on a regular basis, where the words are visible on the screen for EVERYBODY to enjoy if they so wish. Why does there seem to be a lack of OC sessions, like having them once a week or something instead of requiring people to ask for a device of which there are limited amounts?? It doesn't make sense to me, wouldn't it be easier to just add captions on the screen instead of having to charge multiple devices and ordering enough for demand? Wouldn't cinemas make more money because no one would be turned away for not having enough devices when buying tickets? The fact these devices are barely advertised too, means hardly anyone even knows this service is available. I didn't start going to the cinemas properly 'til i was in my mid-late twenties because I simply had no idea that these services even existed.

 Apparently Village (who are based in Victoria) offers Open Captioned sessions (OC) once a fortnight on a Sunday where anybody attending can read captions on the big screen without needing a device. Why haven't I heard of any cinemas in Brisbane offering Open Captioned sessions? Have you heard of any? If so, please share them with me. (I did find a Facebook Page advertising specific cinemas offering OC on particular days but it doesn't look like they're that common. Hoyts seem to offer both CC and OC and though the OC sessions are rare, at least they seem to offer CC on multiple times (which is smart because you don't want all the deaf people turning up to the one CC session and you risk running out of devices avaible, which is exactly what happened yesterday.)

Anyways, if you made it this far, thanks for reading. Hope this was able to help someone else in some way.

[subrab]

Artist Christine Sun Kim Rewrites Closed Captions)

[smallidarityfan]

bro let the thoughts win

[hinamie]

quick itfs sketch page

[bean-writes]

GODS, YES. There are so many games that do an amazing job at the subtitles but forget to consider that BRO SOME PEOPLE'S EARS JUST DON'T WORK.

Please, please, PLEASE consider if your game is playable without auditory cues (have your beta testers play it with the sounds off!) OR! go the extra mile and have a "Deaf Mode" that turns auditory cues into visual cues like being able to see vibrations, color changes to alert danger, etc!

I’m really enjoying Bramble: The Mountain King but I am struggling with some of it. 😅

[nucipheram]

Video skit is by thepandaredd, I just added open captions

If there’s anything I can fix up, lemme know

[thelovelesslesbian]

having now experienced an open caption movie for the first time, it enhanced the experience so much like I could actually follow what was happening

[momiji-memories]

Hi people that rely on captioning, how do you feel when captions are edited versions of what is actually being said?

Like I see creators writing open captions for their content, but they completely edit a phrase to censor it or to correct their speaking mistake without specifying that's what they're doing.

I feel like sometimes it completely changes the feeling of the sentence, and that feels frustrating.

Is it something that bothers y'all too? Or is it just me who is noticing this ^^;

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

More "holiday" music -- for biology lovers and nerds:

An a cappella version of the "Hallelujah" Chorus -- with the lyrics changed to celebrate the entire Animal Kingdom (Lyrics in the video, and this post. Eye contact. 3 minutes, 45 seconds. Proper closed captions in Galician, auto-generated captions in Spanish):

Lyrics:

Animalia! (x10)

Our cells are phospholipid membranous Animalia (x4) But have no form-restrictive containers Animalia (x4) Our high motility is what shapes us For heterotrophy as predators Chordata, annelids and ctenophores Animalia!

The opisthokonta clade Has become The kingdoms of fungi And animals And animals

In the domain of eukaryota ATP made inside mitochondria But we contain no plastids like chloroplasts With blastulae as diplo- or triploblasts

Kingdom of Mollusca Tardigrada Arthropoda Chordata:

The phylum of Larvacia Agnatha Amphibia And Mammalia:

Classis of Rodentia Cetacea Carnivora Primates:

The order of Lemuridae Tarsiidae Atelidae Hominidae:

Family of Gorilla and Pongo Chimpanzee And homo:

The genus of Homo sapiens sapiens

(But we all came from before the Cambrian)

But we all came But we all came But we all came But we all came

From a concestor in the Precambrian

Protostomes (And deuter- ostomia) With desmosomes (Gap junctions, tight junctions) And microtubules nucleated by centrosomes

Coelomates with hollow cores Gastrulate from blastopores And we chordates have tails and gill slits and notochords

Echinoderms (Platyzoa, Nematoda) And Arthropods (Porifera and Cnidaria) Animalia (x4)

ANIMALIA!

[possession1981-moving]

THE FIRST OMEN dir. Arkasha Stevenson, 2024