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In deaf culture, many people who watch television and go to see movies, or buy videos and DVD’s want to be able to know exactly what the characters are saying, and what is going on. Well, there are ways to make this possible. What way could this be, you may ask? The solution is captioning. Captioning makes it easier for the deaf viewers to watch television or a movie without having to hear it, but rather read it. Captions are the visible text for spoken audio. Deaf or hard of hearing people the text as someone on the screen speaks it; the words stream from one side of the TV to the next, making it easy to watch and read at the same time. Before there was captioning on every TV, many complaints were coming from deaf and hard of hearing people. But in 1990, the Television Decoder Circuitory Act law was passed in the U.S., ensuring that captioning be built in all TVs. Now, thousands of programs and channels are equipped with closed captioning, or open captioning. There are three different types of captioning worldwide. First, there is closed captioning, which are captions that are pre-typed into a television program or movie, but the viewer has to retrieve them.
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