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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…

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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…

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Webinar: Media Accessibility By Design

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Webinar: How Good Accessibility Practices Make a Better Workplace (Max Accessibility Week 2021)

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Influencing With Accessibility

Influencing With Accessibility The explosion of social media has created many things beyond connections between people. Social media has created its own subculture and ecosystem. One of the coolest ways it has influenced our daily lives is, well, influence. The…

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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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