Danielle RalstonFounder, How Capacity Works · Founder of ND Hive | Building the productivity hub where work actually gets done | Execution spaces, body doubling & community accountability

The Importance of Closed Captioning in Meetings #adhd #ptsdrecovery #mindfullistening

2 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief dialogue, two speakers discuss the value of enabling closed captioning on Zoom calls. Speaker B highlights that captioning benefits not only self‑identified neurodivergent individuals but also undiagnosed neurodivergent people and even neurotypical workers who can perform better with text support. Speaker A adds a personal perspective, explaining that they rely on multisensory input—video, audio, and captions—to comprehend information, noting that captions speed up their processing. The conversation frames closed captioning as an inclusive, low‑cost feature that improves comprehension for a wide audience without harming anyone.

I would love if closed captioning on Zoom calls was more of a thing.
Okay. 'Cause even if, like, first there's neurodivergent people that are aware they're neurodivergent, then there's this whole subset of people that are undiagnosed neurodivergent. And then there is this group of neurotypicals that may just be able to do their job better because there's closed captionings on. It's just a thing that's not going to hurt anyone.
No, not at all. So closed captioning for me, I need multisensory. Sensory input in order to comprehend something a lot of times. Video does help. So video and audio, obviously if you're on video you've got audio at the same time, that helps and that's pretty good for me. But adding closed captioning is a huge— I process things faster.