![]() Some media players have interactive transcripts generated from the caption files, that highlight text phrases as they get spoken. Please note that what the UK calls subtitles are called “closed captions” or “subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)” In the USA, and Ofcom discovered that 7.5 million people in the UK (18% of the population) used closed captions (external website), and of that 7.5 million, only 1.5 million were d/Deaf or hard of hearing.Ĭaptions used to create interactive transcripts Subtitles are not always an accommodation required for accessibility, but captions are needed for accessibility. ![]() This guide provides useful information on when to use captions and transcripts, and how to write captions and transcripts that are both meaningful and understandable for all users.Ĭaptions and subtitles can often be used to describe the same thing, so we will use captions to refer to monolingual subtitles (external website) – spoken audio that is in the same language (same-language subtitles), and subtitles for intralingual subtitles (external website) - spoken audio that is translated into a different language.
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