Morton Ann Gernsbacher
Video Captions Benefit Everyone
University of Wisconsin–Madison
video captions also known samelanguage subtitles benefit everyone watches videos children adolescents college students adults 100 empirical studies document captioning video improves comprehension attention memory video captions particularly beneficial persons watching videos nonnative language children adults learning read persons ddeaf hard hearing however despite us laws require captioning workplace educational contexts many video audiences video creators nave legal mandate caption much less empirical benefit captions