You’ve probably seen more than one television show that says something like “available in closed caption.” That, of course, is for those who can’t hear, and yet, here is another example of a job many workers do from home:

From Closed Captioners Get the Message Across: Ray is part of a small, but growing, number of broadcast captioners in Iowa and across the nation. Many work at home, providing closed-captioning for television programs, including national shows produced and transmitted live from television studios in cities hundreds of miles away.

On Jan.1, rules went into effect requiring closed-captioning for all new TV programs, with some exceptions. Future rules will require captioning for reruns and Spanish-language shows.