Impact Media Closed Captioning Blogs
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What Are The Closed Captioning Rules
Closed captioning allows persons with hearing disabilities to have access to television programming, by displaying the audio portion of a television program, as text on the television screen. Continue reading...
A Time-line of Closed Captioning
Closed Captioning has come a long way since the first television series first broadcasted closed captioning in March of 1980. Continue reading...
Who Uses Closed Captioning
Many people use closed captioning on a regular basis, and they are not even aware of it. Closed Captioning are those words on the TV screen while you're at the gym. Oh, so that's closed captioning.
Should Commercials be Captioned
Commercials should only be closed captioned if you want to expand your viewership to include not only the deaf and hard of hear, but also people viewing your commercials in public facilities that may have the TV muted, and the captions displayed.
What Are The ADA Captioning Rules
The American Disabilities Act requires that all videos produced by organizations that receive federal funding must comply with the ADA closed captioning rules, which exclude automated voice recognition software such as the auto captioning on YouTube.
Why Use SDH Subtitles
Why not use SDH Subtitles when subtitling a video or video clip? SDH Subtitles include the sound effects in the video in addition to the words being spoken, and people who are deaf or hard of hearing can enjoy the video as much as the person hearing the teenage screaming, the door slamming, and the music then blasting from the room.
What Are Title Safe Lower Thirds
Although broadcast TV has gotten wider, little has changed with it comes to title safe lower thirds. Find out more.
Closed Captioning Laws 101
Do you know the closed captioning laws, and is your company keeping up with the legal aspects of closed captioning? Continue reading
All Closed Captioning is Not the Same
When it comes to finding a closed captioning company make sure you find one that goes the extra mile like Impact Media. Continue reading...
Subtitling Social Media Videos
Social media continues to grow as an important outreach for most every business. We've all been scrolling down our news feeds and we see videos playing. Continue reading...
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