{"id":544,"date":"2010-07-10T10:15:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T18:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/?p=544"},"modified":"2010-07-10T10:15:35","modified_gmt":"2010-07-10T18:15:35","slug":"captions-as-input","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/captions-as-input\/","title":{"rendered":"Captions as input"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not having cable TV at home, I tend to watch it during my almost daily slog on the treadmill at the YMCA. Some of the treadmill TVs have an interesting feature: they show captions until you plug in your earphones. <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.runreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Precor-966i-treadmill-console.jpg?resize=231%2C231\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"12\" width=\"231\" height=\"231\" align=\"right\" \/>Then the captioning disappears. The presumption must be that if you plug in earphones, you can hear, and therefore don&#8217;t need the captions.<br \/>\nCaptioning is a talking point in accessibility discussions. It&#8217;s seen as necessary for those with hearing impairments, so they can read the audio content instead of hear it. But some faculty don&#8217;t want things captioned, since the point of the exercise might be to ONLY hear something (as in a language class). Although captioning is increasingly mandated by the government, I support faculty who have work for which captioning is inappropriate, and those who refuse to do manual captioning themselves because their institution won&#8217;t help with it.<\/p>\n<p>But to me captioning is not about disability accommodation. It is simply another way of relaying the information, regardless of ability. While not being a very good listener, or very good at English, may not be a &#8220;disability&#8221;, in such cases captioning can provide better comprehension. Reading the captions while listening engages two parts of the brain and provides reinforcement. Seeing a visual representation next to text provides two inputs. Multiple inputs work. I did an experiment once where I put on period music, flashed period images on the screen, and lectured about the period all at the same time. Retention of the information was much better.<\/p>\n<p>So I am annoyed by the treadmills that automatically turn off the captions. My Spanish is lousy, so if I&#8217;m watching a soccer game it helps to see the Spanish in print. If the gym is loud that day, or the audio track of the movie on TCM isn&#8217;t so hot, or the characters use accents or intonations my brain is too tired to translate while pretending I&#8217;m not walking for 2 miles, the captions are nice. It should be up to me to turn them on or off, using the remote control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not having cable TV at home, I tend to watch it during my almost daily slog on the treadmill at the YMCA. Some of the treadmill TVs have an interesting feature: they show captions until you plug in your earphones. Then the captioning disappears. The presumption must be that if you plug in earphones, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}