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From: John E Brandt
Date: Mar 19, 2013 7:29PM

We just did a webinar about captioning and I pulled these resources
together:

Are there standards or guidelines for providing captions?
http://www.washington.edu/accessit/articles?1201

Captioning Key from The Described and Captioned Media Program
http://www.dcmp.org/captioningkey/

Media Access Group at WGBH Boston - Suggested Styles and Conventions for
Closed Captioning
http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/mag/services/captioning/faq/sugg-styles-conv
-faq.html
http://ncam.wgbh.org/invent_build/web_multimedia/accessible-digital-media-gu
ide/adm-guidelines-appendices#ADM_Guidelines:_Appendix_3

If you're from/in Canada....;-)
http://www.dcmp.org/caai/nadh20.pdf

If you're from Down Under!
http://www.mediaaccess.org.au/practical-web-accessibility/media/caption-guid
elines

and, always worthy of a read
Captioning Sucks
http://captioningsucks.com/standards/



~j

John E. Brandt
www.jebswebs.com
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207-622-7937
Augusta, Maine, USA

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Subject: [WebAIM] Captioning Compliance

Hi All,

I am trying to make sure that our lecture videos offer captions that are
compliant with recommended/required standards.

So far, I have this information from TechSmith for ADA compliant
captions<http://www.techsmith.com/tutorial-camtasia-mac-compliant-captions.h
tml>:


- One to three lines of text appear onscreen all at once, stay there for
three to seven seconds, and are then replaced by another caption.
- Timed to synchronize with the audio.
- Do not cover up graphics and other essential visual elements of the
picture.
- Require the use of upper and lowercase letters.
- Use a font similar to Helvetica medium.
- Have good resolution.
- Include not more than 32-characters-per-line.

Does anyone know if this is the information I should go by, or if there are
newer, more comprehensive standards available?

Many thanks,

Karla

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