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welcome to the cotkey ride home for th Thursday, October 21st, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird today.

Open captions are coming to the big screen as AMC theaters takes a big step towards accessibility

and a look at captions growing popularity among the hearing.

Plus, how some of the most popular memes are completely inaccessible,

and the group of museums who have started an only fan's account.

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

Earlier this week, AMC theaters announced that they are expanding their open film captioning support throughout the U.S.

Open captions will be available at 240 theaters and over 100 markets during select showtimes.

Open captions differ from closed captions in that they are always on the screen, so the onus isn't on the user to figure out how to turn them on, like with closed captions on a TV. And captions, by the way, differ from subtitles in that subtitles are more for translating spoken language and match the dialogue directly. As Lifehacker described it in a recent article about some of the controversy surrounding

the closed captions for Squid Game, not being translated effectively, quote,

Subtitles typically assume the audience can hear the audio, but need text to supplement

the spoken word, such as in a direct translation of an entire film, or when multiple

languages are used within the same film. Closed captions, on the other hand, do not assume

the audience can hear what's happening on screen. According to the National Association of the Deaf,

close captions not only display words as the textual equivalent of spoken dialogue or narration, but also include

speaker identification, sound effects, and music description, end quote. And for the record,

if you are a hearing person and want a more accurate translation of Squid Game or anything else,

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