Closed-Captions for Viewers with Low Vision Caption Speed and New Tools
Inoue Shigeki, Nakano Yasushi, Arai Tetsuya, Nobuyuki Nagai, 研介 大島, Yuriko Yamamoto, Nicole Schepker · IOS Press eBooks · 2008
In an era in which the world population of individuals aged 65 and older constitutes nearly 500 million people, the accessible design of information is increasingly important. Closed-captioning, originally designed to make televised information accessible to deaf and hearing-impaired individuals, now benefits millions of people with a wide range of abilities. The United States, which has legislated captioned television for over thirty years, can be considered a world leader in the practice from which many countries, including Japan, may learn. Yet even in the U.S. there is no effective style of captioning for elders and people with low-vision. The captioning of short clips, such as TV commercials and short video, is especially lacking.