I see where the writer is coming from, but, as someone with lousy hearing, I find it difficult to sympathize. Part of me wants to yell, "Quit moaning and just c

I see where the writer is coming from, but, as someone with lousy hearing, I find it difficult to sympathize. Part of me wants to yell, "Quit moaning and just caption your film!" But there are difficulties. The writer has a life, I'm sure, and lots of other things to do. The irony is that I'm sure there are people who would be happy to do it for him. Some of them might do it free. And for someone with experience and the proper software, I imagine a passable job might take a day and an excellent job might take two days. The main barrier, I would guess, is legal rights. You generally cannot legally take someone else's film and modify it, without their permission -- no matter how altruistic your motives are. What we need is a standard way to cut through the legal barriers. Perhaps a document could be drawn up that makes the right to add accomodations for disabilities (in an accurate manner) available to all, while leaving other rights unmodified. Then small filmmakers could just indicate that their work falls under these terms.[1] A nicer alternative would be for a law to be passed that applies such terms to all creative works. But I don't expect that to happen any time soon. [1] EDIT. Or maybe something like this already exists. Does anyone know?