Captioning Sucks!

April 1, 2008 / Joe Clark launched Captioning Sucks! today, which homepage, in the words of the authors, “may be the only viable usage of Comic Sans on the entire Web.” The site’s goal is to raise awareness about the poor state of closed captioning, and also about the The Open and Closed Project, which aims to deliver a […]

Joe Clark launched Captioning Sucks! today, which homepage, in the words of the authors, “may be the only viable usage of Comic Sans on the entire Web.” The site’s goal is to raise awareness about the poor state of closed captioning, and also about the The Open and Closed Project, which aims to deliver a set of accessible standards for “captioning, audio description, subtitling, and dubbing.” The project is ambitious, to say the least (just read the home page statement). There are some real world examples of captioning on Joe’s Flickr share. Here’s my favourite.