On Friday, October 8, 2010, the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010 was signed into law by President Barack Obama. This new law expands the requirements for web video captioning and accessiblity services. More specifically, it requires that any closed captioned television program be closed captioned when delivered over the Internet. The law also requires all devices capable of displaying video to be able to display closed captions.
Videos files to Web Closed Captioning
There are many different kinds of video files used in the professional editing and broadcast world, MXF, MPEG-2, DV24, DVCPRO HD, QuickTime ProRes, Line-21 VBI, Avid AAF can all have closed captions in one form or another. Audio Eye software can batch process or manually extract closed captioning from virtually any video file or format, and easily convert it to any web friendly format.
Create Closed Captioning for the Web from Scratch
To caption a video for the web, a few ingredients are needed: a transcript of the video, the actual video file, and closed captioning software to format and synchronize the text with the video. There are many tools that can help this process become quick and easy.
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AudioEye News
August 03, 2011
Ed-tech leaders push closed captioning, compliance monitoring.
Colleges are looking to companies that can make lessons more accessible as they hope to stay in compliance with disability laws.
Teaming up with companies that provide transcribers or software that scans recorded lectures and provides transcription, colleges and universities are increasingly looking for new, inexpensive ways to eliminate barriers for students with disabilities in the lecture hall ... or those who use a computer to access instruction.