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close captioning en · NOUN

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  1. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of closed captioning.
    • D/HoH people require close captioning and assistive technologies to access electronic and audio-visual information, including news and current events. 2018, Bobbie Bushman, “Serving Underserved Populations: Implications from a Model of Successful Services for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children in Public Libraries”, in The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion, volume 2, number 3:
    • Additionally, in a research-film, faces being blurred can ensure confidentiality, voices can be changed, and subtitles or close captioning can be used to disguise the identity of an informant who wants to be anonymous. 2016 December, April Karen Baptiste, “Can a Research Film Be Considered a Stand-Alone Academic Publication? An Assessment of the Film ‘Climate Change, Voices of the Vulnerable: The Fishers’ Plight.’”, in Area 48, number 4:
    • the prison did not have basic assistive devices, including a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), close captioning devices, and visual alarms and signals. 1992 March-April, Mental and Physical Disability Law Reporter, volume 16, number 2: