By Cal Gallagher
Tag: web captioning
Web captioning refers to the process of adding text captions to video content hosted on websites, ensuring that the spoken dialogue, sound effects, and relevant audio are accessible to all viewers, including those who are deaf or hard of hearing. This service is crucial for websites that feature multimedia content, such as educational videos, tutorials, product demos, or promotional materials.
Web captioning helps improve accessibility and inclusivity, making content comprehensible to a broader audience, including non-native speakers and those in noisy environments. By implementing professional web captioning, businesses can enhance user experience, ensure legal compliance with accessibility laws, and boost engagement. Additionally, captions can improve SEO, making web videos more discoverable to search engines and increasing traffic to the site.
By Cal Gallagher
The Rise of Streaming Services and Captioning Challenges
By Cal Gallagher
Accessibility Standards in 2025: The Essential Role of Human Captioning
By Cal Gallagher
The Impact of AI on Closed Captioning: Why Human Expertise Matters
By Ben Kalb
YouTube Introduces New Caption Features
Recent YouTube improvements have made watching online videos with captions better than ever. Since YouTube’s introduction of caption support in 2006, the social media site has been a trendsetter for online accessibility.
By Ben Kalb
FCC Sets Deadlines For Internet Captioning
Another important milestone to providing accessibility over the Internet has been reached. In October 2010, President Obama signed the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA) into law. Among the things it required was closed captioning for video programming delivered over the Internet.
By Ben Kalb
Who Is Required To Close-Caption?
With only a few exceptions, all programming for broadcast in the United States must be closed captioned. The rules for the requirement of closed captions were directed by the U.S. Congress in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and became effective starting in 1998. Since then, the required amount of captioning has been steadily increasing. Today, nearly 100% of all English and Spanish language programming is closed captioned.