Mastodawn

Likely Jan Lukas Nov 20, 2023

Nice to see that I am not alone in finding a LOT of modern visual media unintelligible due to how dark it is on the screen (visually, not necessarily emotionally).

This example from The Crown is excellent as it compares the modern re-creation vs the original broadcast.

#Protip: Enabling #DescribedMedia can make stories more intelligble than whatever is going on with modern directors/editors these days.

#film
#TV
#streaming
#vision
#DescribedVideo
#DescribedMedia
#wtaf
#muddyScreens

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EllenInEdmonton

Nov 20, 2023

@likelyjanlukas Your post was the motivation that I needed to figure out how to change the subtitles on Viki, and probably Netflix. Recent updates had tiny white subtitles that just blended into the scenery. Giant yellow ones will be more visible, I think! #Accessibility

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Likely Jan Lukas

@EllenInEdmonton

Oh yeah, sometimes subtitling is atrocious. I have tended just to use an iPad lately for watching stuff, as all subtitling seems to be legible on it. On my TV? Some streaming service captions look like they were farted out of a very old dot-matrix printer.

I love captions but they *also* still need to be legible.

Hope your setting changes work well! 🙂