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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: May 8, 2015 10:06AM

> I'm a big fan of open captions

One challenge with open captions is that users cannot change the visual appearance of the captions -- this can be a challenge for people who have a visual impairment in addition to being deaf or hard of hearing. Also on smaller devices users may need to increase the size of the captions. There is another technique to encapsulate closed captions into the media file -- that way the captions are included in a single file -- although this technique may be more limited though in it's support for different platforms and players.

Jonathan

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Jonathan Avila 
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SSB BART Group 
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