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DV 101: A Hands-On Guide for Business, Government & Educators
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DV 101: A Hands-On Guide for Business, Government & Educators

by Jan Ozer
February 2005
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
244 pages
5h 57m
English
Peachpit Press
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Chapter 11. Producing and Deploying Closed Captions

Whether you work in a government facility, in academia, or for a contractor supplying video to the government, your work must meet the accessibility standards of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (see www.section508.gov). As one regulation states, “All training and informational video and multimedia productions which support the agency’s mission, regardless of format, that contain speech or other audio information necessary for the comprehension of the content, shall be open or closed captioned.” That’s a big net that catches a lot of government and academic videos.

This chapter starts with a look at closed-captioning issues such as what to caption, and how closed captions differ from ...

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