Streszczenie:
The paper aims at answering the question how to improve
accessibility of subtitling for the hearing-impaired. One of the
most frequently asked questions in captioning is whether
captions should be edited or verbatim. e paper reports on the
results of an eye-tracking study on captioning for the
hearing-impaired, reading different types of captions. By
examining eye movement patterns when watching clips with
verbatim, standard and edited captions, we tested whether
the three different caption styles were read differently by
deaf, hard of hearing and hearing participants. In terms of
group differences, deaf participants differed from the other
two groups only in the case of reading verbatim captions. The
results are discussed with reference to classical reading
studies, audiovisual translation and a new concept of viewing
speed.
