While many captioning firms have a “style manual” dictating their captioning offerings, we understand that with differing applications of this technology come differing needs. Our staff is highly trained in the area of captioning and can work with you to identify the most effective captioning solution. We provide experienced captioning professionals with typing skills of at least 250 words per minute and near perfect accuracy.
Alderson has been called on to caption live programming for many high profile events. Through the use of captions each and every person that wishes to participate in an event may read the text of the presentation as it scrolls on a monitor while the event is occurring. Live caption broadcasting is useful for:
Communication Accessed Realtime Translation (CART) services enable streamed text to be viewed by a limited group of people. In contrast to captioning, CART services are streamed to a computer screen without visual presentation.
In addition to the accessibility enhancements of CART services for non-hearing individuals, hearing participants also benefit through increased learning comprehension and the promotion of heightened participation. Moreover, this technology has the unique ability to meet ADA requirements, both in the room and when posted online in transcript form alongside a video.
Post-production captioning, also referred to as off-line or pre-recorded captioning, is the preparation of captions added to a program after the program is completed. This technology is normally used in training videos or repetitive webcast videos. Post-production captioning is exceedingly precise and offers more flexibility for options such as pop-up captioning, descriptive captions, sound effects, speaker recognition and other pertinent auditory information.
Defense Intelligence Agency
National Security Agency
Department of Education
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Environmental Protection Agency
Federal Communication Commission
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
National Institutes of Health
United States Postal Service
U.S. District Court and National Imaging & Mapping Agency
U.S. House of Representatives
Americans with Disabilities Act
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) strives to ensure equal opportunity for persons with disabilities. As such, discrimination against persons with disabilities in employment, state and local government services, transportation, and other public or commercial accommodations are prohibited. By extension, this act includes the provision for captioning services to the deaf and hard of hearing.
Telecommunications Act of 1996
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 includes television captioning requirements for all video programming provided by a television broadcast station, regardless of distribution technology.
Section 508
Section 508 requires that Federal agencies’ electronic and information technology is accessible to people with disabilities. Essentially, all training and informational video and multimedia productions that support the agency’s mission, regardless of format, must be open or closed captioned if they contain speech or other audio information necessary for the comprehension of the content.
Yes. Closed captioning allows the viewer to choose whether or not to display captions that are transmitted in encoded form through the use of a decoder. Most often, this type of captioning is used in broadcast television, where a decoder is built into the television set and can be turned on to display encoded messaging on screen. The process of encoding the message involves storing the caption data within the video signal. Alderson has this capability.
Captioning has broader applications than just television which might require captioning without encoding (open captions) so that it can display without the need for a decoder. A few examples of this type of captioning service would include webcasts or live events being captioned on a Jumbotron or large LCD monitors.
With roll-up captioning, entire lines of text roll in a continuous, upward motion. Most often, only two to three lines of text will appear at a time, with each new line bumping the text upward to replace the top line. This type of captioning is not synchronized to the video, and is most suited to live events or pre-recorded presentations with a limited number of speakers.
Pop-on captioning allows a deeper dimension of synchronization to the video, which can be particularly helpful to the hard of hearing. With pop-on captioning, the phrases or sentences spoken by each person are timed, and often positioned, to synchronize with the program and help identify the speaker.
