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Celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2022

Global accessibility awareness is a year-round cause at Captionmax, but Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) is an important annual event on the third Thursday of May, bringing further attention to the fact that digital products need to be accessible to…

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Modernizing Accessibility Terminology

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…

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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…

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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…

OOONA Partners With Captionmax On Mobile App Launch

Longtime Captionmax partner OOONA has launched a mobile app for their platform, offering a fully remote experience to their global user base. This new app allows translators and project managers to access their work remotely. “Even before COVID, our global…

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Happy 10th Birthday to the CVAA!

Ten years ago, on October 8th, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA) into law, pushing forward another groundbreaking step in the realm of media and digital accessibility. The CVAA contains many telecommunications…

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Section 508 Compliance Checklist

Section 508 is an important amendment to the Rehabilitation Act that protects the rights of people with disabilities, requiring Federal agencies to ensure that their websites and electronic information technology is fully accessible to those who have disabilities. This also…

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Election 2020: Voting Accessibility and Accommodations

In what has already been a year no one will ever forget, 2020 isn’t letting up. With the presidential election right around the corner, how do accessibility practices come into play at the polls or in early voting from home? Let’s take a look.…

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Captioning for Online Church Services

The ongoing COVID-19 crisis has forced everyone to change their daily habits, with health officials advising that social distancing should be a top priority. Churches and places of worship, which encourage close proximity by design, have been particularly affected. But…

Why Invest In Quality Captions From The Start?

With all the options you have these days for accessibility companies, how on earth are you supposed to pick the right partner to work with? After all, depending on your needs, one option may be better than the next. Or…

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