Captioning | Accessibility
Standards Based Development
Difference Between Subtitles & Captions
The difference between subtitles<.strong> & captions: Subs = translations of foreign movies for hearing people. Captions = those with little or no hearing.
The Search Side Effect Benefit of Closed Captioning
The benefits of closed captioning for hearing-impaired students are obvious. But it's also proving to have real value for the entire campus community, by enabling better search capabilities. Using products such as Echo360, Sonic Foundry's Mediasite, and McGraw-Hill's Tegrity, for example, students can skip to any part of a professor's oral presentation via keyword search--they no longer need to wade through the entire thing or rely on a search of accompanying lecture notes or a PowerPoint presentation.
The content's value is definitely limited unless it can be both transcribed and searchable," says Tole Khesin of 3Play Media in Cambridge, MA. "Using closed captioning, students can jump to any specific part of a video to find what they need.
Closed Captioning and Getting Your Lines Right
Captionator
Captionator: simple closed-captioning polyfill for HTML5. Less than 5KB when gzipped!
Live Captions are another term for realtime captioning.