Captioning

TAP has completed two studies related to captioning: A consumer-opinion study on caption features preferred for showing background music, speaker identification, sound effects, and other elements of the sound track; and a survey of teachers on use of captioned video in classrooms with deaf and hard of hearing children.

The Department of Communication Studies also offers an undergraduate course that covers captioning history, policy, technology, research and advocacy. This page links to information on those research and teaching activities, and to a wealth of information on captioning available on other sites.

TAP Research

• Non-Speech Information in Captioned Video:
  A Consumer Opinion Study
• Survey of Captioned Media and Educational Technology
  

Information

• Captioning Quality Initiative
  September 14, 2002.  Conference summary.
• Closed Captioning Web
  Provides extensive information and links pertaining to all aspects of closed captioning.
• WorldWide Web Consortium, Web Access Initiative
  Develops guidelines for accessibility on the Web, including captioning
• FCC's Disabilities Rights Office (DRO)
  Information on FCC proceedings, announcements, consumer information and other valuable information.
• Closed Captioning and Video Description of Video Programming
  The FCC's Report and Order requiring closed captions of video programming.
• Emergency Alert System and Accessibility of Emergency Video Programming
  Explains how televised emergency information is expected to be accessible.
• FCC's Fact Sheet on Requirements for Closed Captioning
• U.S. Access Board Information on Movie Theater Captioning
• Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP)
  Offers free-loan described and captioned educational media and provides a clearinghouse of information related to educational media access.
• CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media
  Sites include information on captioning and other forms of media access.
• National Court Reporters Association
  Includes information on realtime captioning and computer aided transcription, as well as state chapters that may help you identify qualified CART reporters.

Vendors

(See Closed Captioning Web for more vendors)

• National Captioning Institute
  A non-profit corporation that developed closed-captioned television service.
• Able-TV
  Provides accessible webcasting services.
• Alderson Reporting
• Viable Technologies
  Uses Automatic Speech Recognition for remote live transcription services
• Public Broadcasting and Media Access at WGBH
  Home of the Caption Center.
• CPC (Computer Prompting & Captioning Co.)
  CPC sells captioning, subtitling, and teleprompting/captioning software.
• Microsoft Multimedia
  This site includes information on the Microsoft® Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange (SAMI)
• VITAC
  Home page of the VITAC captioning company.

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