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Video: Add English subtitles for trailers

I believe every movie trailer should have English Subtitles for every movie trailer since ADA has passed the law that requires any online streaming sites such as NetFlix, Vudu, CBS, ABC, Fox, Hulu, YouTube must provide English Subtitles or Closed-Captioning for those people who cannot hear those videos due to hearing-impaired. It isn't fair for all those people who have hearing impaired cannot enjoy watching movie trailers without English Subtitles. I hope you guys at IMDB.com can do something about it. Thanks for your time.

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dan_dassow

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11 years ago

Hi DEAFB0Y,

I fully support IMDb implementing guidelines from the American Disability Act for not only the hearing impaired, but for the visually and other physically impaired individuals. 

Please review and like (+1) my suggestion if you agree.
ADA Comment for Visually Impaired
https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/ada_comment_for_visually_impaired

The legislation that requires closed captioning for videos is part of the CVAA.

This is a summary of the CVAA:
21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA)
Twenty-First Century Communications and Video
Accessibility Act of 2010 - Pub. L. 111-260
http://www.fcc.gov/guides/21st-century-communications-and-video-accessibility-act-2010

This is an index of the laws and regulations.

Disability-related laws and regulations implemented by the FCC
http://www.fcc.gov/disability

This is the section of the regulations regarding closed captioning. I've quoted the section regarding deadlines for video programming on the internet.

Captioning of Internet Video Programming
http://www.fcc.gov/guides/captioning-internet-video-programming
Archival Internet Video Programming

The following deadlines apply to video programming that a distributor already shows on the Internet. Distributors have extra time to add captions to video programming that they already show on the Internet and that is later shown on TV with captions, as follows:

  • Within 45 days after the date it is shown on TV with captions on or after March 30, 2014 and before March 30, 2015;
  • Within 30 days after the date it is shown on TV with captions on or after March 30, 2015 and before March 30, 2016; and
  • Within 15 days after the date it is shown on TV with captions on or after March 30, 2016.

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lara_schuchat

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10 years ago

As a person who is HoH (50% deaf in both ears and use hearing aids daily) I have had a really tough time with the dialogue in films - especially these days when the sound effects are SO much louder - that it can over-ride the people speaking...BADLY.

I truly feel that EVERY film trailer on a site the size of IMDb should have the option to turn on Closed Captioning! Period.

And every Film or TV show should have basic English subtitles.
It would be awesome to start adding subs for other countries, too. Everyone deserves to enjoy a trailer clip or a film equally- regardless of our (dis)abilities!

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bolgajeff

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I totally agree with you Lara. However, I noticed that your post is four years old and IIMDb is still not subtitling their trailers nor for example interview videos from Comic Con. This is really a shame because they also appear to have ambitions to become a major player in the content streaming business . WE WANT SUBTITLES NOW!

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6 years ago

schrama_g

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7 years ago

is it possible to see subtitles in IMDB ? in Dutch will be very nice 
IMDB on my PC
Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled is it possible to see subtitles in IMDB ? in Dutch will be very nice

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jeorj_euler

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Hi, Schrama G. Semantics? For registered users, the presentation of pages on www.imdb.com can be customized in such way as to display the regional and lingual variations of a work's title, yes, but there is no closed captioning available for videos, clips, featurettes, trailers, demo reels or full movies that show up in video galleries of title pages or name pages. To adjust the ways that some of the content of pages appear to you while you are logged in, you would visit https://www.imdb.com/preferences/general and submit the form after making adjustments to the settings that interest you.

— Jeorj Euler, an IMDb regular registrant

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7 years ago

ssaltern

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7 years ago

What is the update on subtitle options for movie trailers now? Still not sooner than 15 days as The Grinch 2018 trailer has been released 6 months ago... https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/illuminations-grinch-will-be-an-origin-story-1105738

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bolgajeff

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Yeah?!

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6 years ago

patrick_banegas

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7 years ago

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Video: Where is closed captioning.

As a deaf person I rely so much on closed captioning, you guys have LONG time to fix this, and yet I still don’t see anything! I will continue to make noise if you have not done yet so! This is basically a violation against the very basic human rights for the deaf community! Please ADD! Also I realized I have two accounts sorry about that I will use this one from now on.

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bolgajeff

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YEAH?!

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6 years ago

luke_collins_hayes

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7 years ago

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Video: Add closed captions to trailers.

To whom it may concern, 

I am writing to you as a British Sign Language user and on behalf of all Deaf people. I am disappointed about the lack of subtitles or closed captioning on all of your movie trailers that are released.  

This makes us feel that we are being excluded and as your customers we are being ignored and not valued.  It means we cannot access information that everyone else can about the content of the forthcoming movies. 

Please can you review this, in order to give us the same experience as your other customers who are not Deaf. 

Yours faithfully, 

Luke Collins-Hayes

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bolgajeff

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Quite right!

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6 years ago

radhika_talwar

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7 years ago

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Video: Closed Captions on Trailers and Videos?.

I was trying to actually just get this message to whoever runs the pages, but hopefully one of you can help. Do you happen to know if the trailers for films and shows can be closed captioned? If so, how do I activate them? If not, could we have this addressed?

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beckett_mageau

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7 years ago

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Video: Closed Captioning.

Why on earth aren't your trailers Closed Captioned? 1 in 20 people is Hard of Hearing or Deaf enough to need Closed Captions. Everything aired on TV in US and Canada (unsure about other places) is REQUIRED to have captions, why doesn't IMDb hold themselves to these standards, or at least provide CC to popular videos? Choosing to provide no CC at all shows complete disregard for the large Deaf community.

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ariana_9wsy5qslit705

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6 years ago

I love watching the IMDB videos.  However, I am hard of hearing and none of them are captioned.  I would like to request that IMDB caption all their videos, so hard of hearing and deaf people can get the same complete experience as everyone else. 
Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled add captions to IMDB videos

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lord_farqua

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5 years ago

I would like to see the companies that supply 'Closed Captioning' included in the description of programming. How would I present the idea to the IMDB staff.
Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Closed captioning ?

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gmj

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Lord Farqua,

Closed captioning companies are usually listed in a title's Miscellaneous Companies section. IMDb depends on contributors to add new data and update any erroneous or incomplete information to the database.

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5 years ago

Levi10

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5 years ago

OMG - THESE TRAILERS ARE STILL NOT CREATED WITH OPTION FOR CLOSED CAPTIONING. WHY NOT??? 

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lara_schuchat

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5 years ago

Agree with everyone here 1000%!

It is long-past time for IMDb to honor all the HoH and d/Deaf viewers and bring Closed Captions to ALL of its video content, including ALL the older vids, too!

If the IMDb Powers That Be want ANY hope of ever competing with the major players in the Streaming & Content Creation sectors then they must GET WITH IT! The longer they wait... the less we want to watch. Srsly.

Please, ask all your friends and family to come to this post and add their own comments in support of CCs on this site! Ask them to be sure to like all of the posted comments here, too! THAT should catch some exec's attention, FINALLY. Or do we need someone to file a suit for violating Accessibility Laws? In multiple Countries?

SOLIDARITY.

Bring us CC's!

N-O-W.

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Javaman518

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4 years ago

There's a Bollywood film and I wanted to watch the preview...but I can't find an option to turn on any subtitles.

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Elliot

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Hi @Javaman518 ,

If subtitles are available for a title, there will be a "Subtitles" option during content playback. 

Elliot

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FireBoy10

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3 years ago

Would need add CC or subtitles on every trailer or video or talk-show it required by ADA law. 

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Closed caption or subtitles

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