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Spanish Subtitles vs. Spanish Closed Captions: What’s the Difference?

by Emily Griffin in Industry Trends

According to a Nielsen report, Hispanic Americans watch 62% more digital video than non-Hispanics. Combine that with recent FCC regulations for Spanish-language closed captioning, and you can expect to see huge demand for Spanish transcription services. American broadcast companies are accustomed to…

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Updated February 7, 2024
Video.js’s Approach to Video Player Accessibility

Video.js’s Approach to Video Player Accessibility

by Emily Griffin in Video Accessibility

The original author of Video.js, Steve Heffernan, joined the expert panel at 3Play’s webinar on the future of video player accessibility. Play the video below to watch Steve’s presentation, or read on for highlights. What is Video.js? Steve Heffernan is the original…

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Updated June 28, 2024

UK Subtitle Regulations for Higher Education and Online Learning

by Emily Griffin in Video Accessibility

Transcription and captioning for online video has become a hot-button issue in American higher education, given the pattern of anti-discrimination lawsuits brought against universities for insufficient accommodation of deaf and hard of hearing students. While there are looser subtitling requirements in the…

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Updated October 20, 2023
UK Subtitle Regulations for Television & Broadcast Media

UK Subtitle Regulations for Television & Broadcast Media

by Emily Griffin in Industry Trends

UK Web Accessibility and Subtitle Regulations We’ve covered the various disability laws and FCC mandates that require closed captioning for video in the US, as well as how the AODA affects subtitling in Ontario, Canada. The United Kingdom has its own rules…

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Updated June 3, 2019

Closed Caption Frame Rates for Digital TV and Film

by Lily Bond in Industry Trends

Download the Brief: Closed Captioning Best Practices, Standards, and Legal Requirements In April, we held a webinar with Netflix and the Entertainment Merchants Association on the closed captioning best practices for the digital distribution of TV and film. Sean Bersell, the VP…

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Updated March 25, 2021