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To demonstrate the value of access and attending to audiences’ experiences, this article shares our analysis of our interviews with eleven students who created videos with sound and captions. We build on our analysis to present a modified set of criteria for assessing how video composers demonstrate awareness of their audiences’ needs and preferences when designing access.

Integral captions and subtitles are specific forms of captions and subtitles that are designed to be essential elements of videos in coordination with sound, signs, and other modes of communication. Integral captions reflect the importance of embodied rhetorics in Deaf culture, particularly in the kinetic language of ASL and Deaf Space design practices. Designing a (Deaf) space for integral captions that embody multimodal and multilingual communication is an essential multimodal literacy practice that benefits d/Deaf and hearing composers and viewers. Five criteria that characterize integral captions provide instructors and scholars with a tool for captions and embodied rhetorics.

Sean Zdenek writes in Reading Sounds, “I set out to break new ground in caption studies. Much work still remains. I hope that this book can serve as a roadmap for future scholars and others interes...