Reading television: The cognitive experience of closed-captioned TV

James Biber
UX Collective
Published in
10 min readJan 6, 2021

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We watch TV with subtitles a lot these days. It’s like reading television.[rustling leaves]

Actually, we watch a lot of closed captioned (CC) TV. In addition to the already-subtitled productions (translating non-English films) we started by turning on closed-captioning for those highly-accented British period pieces or procedurals (where you know…

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