1. By: Jennifer Spann

2.  It’s the law
 CC supports the tenants of UDL
 CC helps the hearing impaired
 CC helps the ESL students
 CC helps students who are struggling readers

3.  508 Law – Government agencies must make
their media accessible to all people, blind and
deaf
 ADA of 1990 – ensures individuals with
disabilities are not excluded in the absence of
auxiliary aids and services
 IDEA – ensures that all children that have
disabilities have the right to receive a free
appropriate public education

4. Universal Design for Learning requires that
there be multiples means of representation.
Closed captions allow for both visual and audio
representation of the information being offered
in the video.

5. CLOSED CAPTIONS SUBTITLES
 Can be turned off and on  Can be turned off and on
 Were created for deaf or  Usually intended for
hard of hearing audience translation
 Usually have a black  Can have a black
background background or be directly
 Captions include all sounds on the screen
that are important to the  Assume that the audience
video attached can hear sounds in the
background

6.  As the law states, deaf students should have
accommodations in place for learning
 Closed captioning assists with the learning of
speech as well as reading comprehension

7.  Assists with language learning
 Improves vocabulary
 Increased fluency of the language
 Improves listening comprehension
 Assists with literacy
 Improves word Recognition
 Improves reading comprehension

8.  Reading captions motivates students
 Reading captions provides a positive
experience for students
 Reading captions provides practice which
struggling readers need
 Allows the struggling reader to both see the
spelling of a word and hear it pronounced

9. 1. Obtain the video and audio source
2. Develop a transcript of the video
3. Synchronize the script with the video
4. Combine the script and video into one file
If you are going to host your video for
embedding
5. Upload your video to a hosting site
6. Make sure you video is open to the public

10.  Software
 MAGPie (Free) -
http://ncam.wgbh.org/invent_build/web_multimedia/tools-
guidelines/magpie
 Jubler (Free and Open Source, Linux, Windows, Mac) -
http://www.jubler.org/index.php
 Subtitle Workshop (Free, Windows Only) -
http://www.urusoft.net/products.php?amp;cat=sw&lang=1
 CapScribe (free, Mac Only) -
http://www.inclusivemedia.ca/launch/index.php?option=com_content&vie
w=article&id=66&Itemid=40
 Services
 Video Caption Corporation – http://www.Vicaps.com
 Closed Caption Maker - http://www.ccmaker.com
 Custom Captions - http://customcaptions.com/
 Closed Caption & Subtitling Software & Services -
http://www.cpcweb.com/

11.  Captioning uses UDL to reach many students
through multiple means of engagement
 Captioning is important to many segments of
our educational population
 The law requires closed captioning
 There are many methods of closed
captioning both commercial and desktop

12.  Closed Captioning: The Law
(http://www.transcriptionstudio.com/pdfs/CLOSED%
20CAPTIONING%20THE%20LAW.pdf)
 Aberdeen Captioning
(http://www.abercap.com/Closed%20Captions%20ES
L%20and%20Literacy.html)
 Read Captions Across America
(http://www.dcmp.org/caai/nadh154.pdf)
 Caption It Yourself (http://www.dcmp.org/ciy/)
 Examining Open and Closed Captioning for
Multimedia and Online Instruction @ NC State
(http://delta.ncsu.edu/docs/about/captioning.pdf)