Closed captions can be turned on or off by the viewer, and are usually denoted by a ‘CC’ symbol (or similar icon) somewhere on the screen. For example, you can see how YouTube displays closed captions (and the button for the viewer to turn them on/off) in the screenshot below… ...
Access, sound, captioning, film/media. Sean Zdenek is an associate professor of technical and professional writing at the University of Delaware. His book, Reading Sounds: Closed-Captioned Media and Popular Culture, won the 2017 award for best book in te