[games_access] What is the meaning of Closed Captioning

[Barrie Ellis]

I think Closed Captions in a US term, Sandra. Over here in the UK we tend to 
just use Subtitles too. I think "Closed Captions" is a bit of a highly 
technical term, that is not that easily understood in general. In the UK 
we've had subtitles for TV programmes at least since the very early 1980's, 
and they included (when done well) different coloured text to denote 
different people speaking, and perhaps in closed brackets, description of 
sound effects, music etc.

Quoting Wikipedia: "The United Kingdom, Ireland, and most other countries do 
not distinguish between subtitles and closed captions, and use "subtitles" 
as the general term-the equivalent of "captioning" is usually referred to as 
"Subtitles for the hard of hearing". Their presence is referenced on screen 
by notation which says "Subtitles", or previously "Subtitles 888" or just 
"888" (the latter two are in reference to the conventional teletext channel 
for captions)."

Barrie

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From: "Sandra Uhling" <sandra_uhling at web.de>
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 9:04 PM
To: "'IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List'" <games_access at igda.org>
Subject: Re: [games_access] What is the meaning of Closed Captioning

> Hello John,
>
> thanks for the information. I see that there is a "gap"
> between the meaning of a word and the social understanding.
>
> I always thought "subtitle" do only present dialogues.
> In German we have closed captioning translated to subtitle = Untertitel.
> And in the right description it includes more than dialogues.
>
> I never thought that translating things would be so difficult.
>
> Best regards,
> Sandra
>
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>
> Sandra,
>
> Closed captioning is the display of all sounds as text.
> It includes spoken words and sounds such as background sounds.
>
> Closed captioning is different from open captioning in that closed
> captioning must be turned on, presumably by the user, whereas open
> captioning is on all the time.
> Closed captioning differs from subtitles in that subtitles do not
> necessarily include sounds other than spoken words.
>
> We use open, not closed, captioning in some of our games.
> We use subtitles in our Inspector Cyndi in Newport games.
>
> It's important to make any sounds that come from the captioning, such as
> from a screen reader, not conflict with any sounds made specifically for
> gamers who are blind.
>
> John Bannick
> www.7128.com
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