Then fucking punish him! It's unconstitutional what he's doing. I bet it'd be a lot easier to get Republicans to win if they had a damn spine against this
Oh all those things you're talking about are absolutely still problems, but I feel like they've been problems for as long as we've had subtitles. And that's why I want the second screen subtitles that could go below what I'm watching.
Good subtitling is amazing, and it was better in the closed caption days, but it was super rare and there's no reason modern subtitles can't do it. It could get out of the way, differentiate speakers, even do tone.
Fell down a bit of a rabbit hole there actually, it looks like YouTube doesn't allow positioning even in formats that have it except WebVTT (Bad google). And the most common format .srt doesn't allow formatting at all. Positioning is a vital accessibility feature, and the rest of formatting is just nice to have. Color differentiating speakers etc can be awesome and really just subtitles can add to content beyond just being an accessibility feature.
And yeah, use .vtt captions where possible I guess, especially if you're the one making them. It looks really good at only adding complexity where you choose it.
Wait, anime has started matching up subtitles on dubs? I'm hard of hearing and like a combination of audio and subtitles, which results in people getting mad when watching anime with me because they're basically never the same.
Then fucking punish him! It's unconstitutional what he's doing. I bet it'd be a lot easier to get Republicans to win if they had a damn spine against this