The Simple Guide to Captioning
FAQs
What is captioning?
Closed captions are a visual representation of the audio in a video. Captions allow video to become accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals by providing a text-based and time-synchronized alternative to the audio.
In addition to spoken audio, captions also include non-speech elements like speaker IDs and sounds that are critical to understanding what is happening in a video.
A video with captions will usually display a CC icon.
Did You Know?
It took 44 years after the invention of television for closed captioning to be introduced, ensuring programs became accessible for those who were deaf or hard of hearing!
More than 48 million (20%) Americans have some degree of hearing loss. 60% of these individuals are either in the workforce or in an educational setting.
Approximately 71% of people with disabilities will leave a website immediately if it is not accessible.
Captions/Subtitles are therefore essential for allowing information to reach the masses!
What are the benefits?
There have been many studies that have found that people recall information better after seeing and hearing it than hearing alone. As captions are visual aids of the spoken word, they can certainly improve memory recall!
Children may also find benefit in using captions to aid their reading comprehension, Similarly, in an educational setting, students are greatly assisted in understanding and retaining content. Individuals for whom English is their second language (ESL) may also find captions helpful with spelling and pronunciation.
Wherever there is difficult language, poor audio or complicated information, captions can clarify the content for the audience. At Kaptions4U we are committed to providing our professional captioning services to a variety of venues and across many different devices.
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