About the Open & Closed Project
The Project is intended as a nonprofit corporation (not a charity) whose main goal is to research, test, and publish a set of standards for captioning, audio description, subtitling, and dubbing. (But what does that really mean?)
Contact us
See the Contact page.
Founder
The Open & Closed Project is the brainchild of Joe Clark, a longtime advocate for increased and improved accessibility.
Supporters
The project has received letters of support from organizations in four countries.
About the name
The name “Open & Closed Project” involves several references:
- Open and closed in the sense of “always-visible” or “user-selected,” as in “closed captioning”
- Openness and participation