Media should be accessible for everyone, everywhere. But how do we continuously work towards ensuring accessibility services like closed captioning and audio description are as inclusive as possible? Modernizing Accessibility Terminology discusses how our teams in Prerecorded Captioning and Description…
Corporate Compliance Primer
Adding accessibility services to your media demonstrates a commitment to making your content inclusive and accessible to all, while also helping you meet a variety of important established standards and regulations. Below, we’ve developed a helpful primer for the most…
Celebrating World Hearing Day 2022
At Captionmax, we focus on meeting the accessibility needs of those in the D/deaf and hard of hearing communities via closed captions and more. This year, we’re taking that a step further by highlighting an important day for people of…
Webinar: Captionmax Webinar with Emily Ladau
3Play Media Acquires Captionmax and NCC
Captionmax and NCC are excited to announce that we are being acquired by 3Play Media. This acquisition brings together three industry leaders in media accessibility, creating one entity that will significantly advance service for media publishers and accessibility. We are…
Closed Captions and Subtitles for Film Festivals
Screening a film at any festival is an exciting yet emotional process for most filmmakers, and often the culmination of years of hard work, perseverance, and dedication to their craft. Media accessibility is one of the final steps in the…
Captions vs Subtitles
CAPTIONS Captions are transcription equivalents of all audio elements in a recorded program, prepared for FCC-compliant accessible broadcast to deaf or hard of hearing audiences. They generally convey dialogue, music, sound effects, and speaker changes, synced with a program’s audio track, in a…
608 and 708 Closed Captions: A Primer
When closed captions appear on a television screen, a decoder inside the TV is translating raw caption data from the broadcast location and displaying it as text that is understandable to the human eye. The method of decoding has evolved…