NEW YORK — Pornhub today added a “closed captioning” category, which features an entire library of content geared toward deaf and hard-of-hearing users.
To start, the closed captioning collection — all with the accessibility of subtitles — will include more than 1,000 top-viewed videos from the site’s straight, popular with women, gay, bi and transsexual categories.
Pornhub Vice President Corey Price said that each video will display descriptive and interpretive text aimed to help improve the experience for users who are not able to hear the video’s original audio.
He said this includes helping to distinguish between different people talking and emotional changes in their voice or non-vocal audio that’s relevant to the storyline.
“Here at Pornhub, it’s important that we continue to service all of our users’ needs and make content accessible to every individual,” Price said.
"By integrating our new closed captioning category, we are now able to render some of our most popular adult content more enjoyable for our users who are hearing impaired."
According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, approximately 15 percent of American adults (about 37.5 million) aged 18 and over report some trouble hearing.
“Apply that to the rest of the world, who we service on a daily basis, and that number increases exponentially,” Price said.
Price noted the launch of Pornhub’s closed captioning category compliments the company’s “descriptive video” category, which launched in 2016 and features audio descriptions of the site’s top performing videos geared toward the visually impaired.
Both the descriptive video and closed captioning campaigns are championed by Pornhub’s philanthropic division Pornhub Cares, which has hosted several other initiatives, including having recently optimized its platform for visually impaired users with enlarged text, customized color contrasts, and keyboard shortcuts; “Panda Style,” its panda conservation awareness and fundraising campaign; “Old School,” its sexual education video geared towards those in retirement communities and nursing homes; and the annual “Pornhub Cares Scholarship,” a $25,000 scholarship awarded to a deserving student.
To check out Pornhub’s closed captioning category, click here.
