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
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)