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Informative Essay On Closed Captioning

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Growing up, I have always had Closed captions on my TV, my friends and family became familiar with closed captions through me. Closed captions convey all spoken content as well as sound effect such as a door opening or foot steps. Written words run across the screen that have been set at the same time they are being spoken. Captioning is important so that deaf and hard of hearing individuals can enjoy and understand dialogue in movies and tv shows just as hearing people do.
Many people know about captioning through sites like Netflix or YouTube. Those are subtitles which are mainly for hearing people because they don't normally show background noise like mentioned before (doors,footsteps, etc.). They also have more languages available, only …show more content…

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