Most of this series consists of materials related to captioning of VHS videotapes, including attempts to persuade tape manufacturers and movie studios to increase the number of captioned tapes on the market. It includes correspondence about, and draft copies of, the Maryland Video Caption Access Bill, which would have required all videotapes sold in Maryland to be captioned. Under pressure from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), this bill was defeated in the Maryland legislature.

Also included is some material related to television closed captioning technology, the 1995 attempt by the federal government to cut funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), a report on the use of captions in NASA’s IMAX theater, and a manual on best practices for caption creators.

See series 3 for more material related to captioning.