OLYMPIA, Wash. – Movie theaters across Washington are now required by law to increase their open captioning options for moviegoers. The law passed in the 2025 legislative session went into effect on Jan. 1.
The new law, passed 34-14 in the senate, says movie theaters doing at least five showings of a movie that is produced with open captioning content must provide captioned screenings to the audience.
Closed captioning refers to text being put overtop a screen afterward, while open captioning means the text is burned into the media itself in advance.…