My subtitles! I can't hear without my subtitles!
My subtitles! I can't hear without my subtitles!
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14452254
My subtitles! I can't hear without my subtitles!
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Subtitles are a great example of an adaptation that helps more than (in this case auditory) disabled people.
When I had small children I stopped watching anything that wasn’t subtitled because I couldn’t control my noise environment. Either too loud to hear when the children were playing or had to keep the noise down when they were sleeping.
It gave me a great appreciation for assistive technology in general.
Or that the commercials are sooooo much louder than the show I'm watching
Why the heck you still watching tv with commercials?
It’s only when we’re over visiting one of our parents. He’s older so the TV is loud anyway & then the commercials come on rattling my eyes in my skull… 💥😵
An excellent example of the curb cut effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curb_cut_effect
Besides, it helps a lot when voiceover is in a language you are learning or can't comprehend by hearing well enough (like Trainspotting)
Or when they speak in a weird accent. Looking at you, Spain, and your weird c and z sounding like th.
Well, every country has its own set of incomprehensible pronunciations ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It saves me about 75% of rewinding 10 seconds. Which, BTW, Netflix is trash at being able to do reliably.