Captioning Services

Make Your Content Accessible to Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing, and Multilingual Audiences

At Natively Fluent, we specialize in providing professional Captioning Services to make your video and audio content accessible to the deaf, hard-of-hearing, and Limited English Proficiency (LEP) speakers. Captions offer a written version of the spoken content in your videos, allowing all users to engage with your material. Whether for business presentations, educational content, or entertainment, our captioning solutions help ensure compliance with accessibility standards while improving audience engagement.

Why Choose Natively Fluent for Captioning Services?

  1. High-Quality Captions: We provide accurate, real-time and pre-recorded captioning, ensuring that your content is both clear and easy to follow for your viewers.
  2. Accessibility and DEIA-Focused: Our captioning services support your organization’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) goals by making your content accessible to deaf, hard-of-hearing, and LEP audiences.
  3. Industry-Specific Expertise: We offer tailored captioning services for a variety of industries, including business, education, healthcare, government, non-profit, public safety, technology, and transportation.
  4. Compliance with Accessibility Standards: Our captioning services comply with ADA, Section 508, and WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) requirements, ensuring your content meets legal accessibility standards.

What Are Captions?

Captions provide textual representation of spoken dialogue, sound effects, and other audio elements in video content. Captions are synchronized with the visual content, allowing viewers to follow along with what is happening both audibly and visually. Captions can be closed (allowing users to turn them on or off) or open (always visible).

Our Captioning Service Offerings

We offer a variety of captioning services to meet your specific needs:

  • Closed Captioning (CC): Ideal for live and pre-recorded content, closed captions provide viewers with the ability to toggle captions on and off. Our captions include dialogue, sound effects, and important background noises, ensuring a comprehensive viewing experience for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
  • Open Captioning: Open captions are permanently visible on your video, ensuring that all viewers can follow along without needing to activate the captioning feature. This option is especially useful for public-facing content.
  • Live Captioning: For live broadcasts, events, and webinars, our real-time captioning services ensure that your live content is accessible to all attendees, regardless of hearing ability or language proficiency.
  • Multilingual Captioning: Our captioning services are available in over 100 languages, allowing you to reach global audiences and provide content in their native language.

Industries We Serve with Captioning Services

Our captioning services are tailored to meet the unique needs of various industries:

  • Business & Finance: Make corporate training videos, webinars, and marketing content accessible to employees and clients with captions that enhance understanding and compliance.
  • Education & eLearning: Provide captioning for educational videos, online courses, and virtual classrooms, ensuring that students and educators have equal access to learning materials.
  • Healthcare: Ensure accessibility in patient education videos, medical training content, and telehealth sessions, helping patients and providers communicate more effectively.
  • Government & Public Safety: Caption public service announcements, emergency briefings, and community outreach videos to ensure that information is accessible to all, including the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
  • Technology & Software: Caption product demos, software tutorials, and tech webinars to make complex information clearer for international and multilingual users.

Why Captioning Matters for Accessibility

Captioning is essential for making content accessible to a wide range of users, not only those who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. It also benefits LEP speakers and users in noisy environments or situations where audio cannot be played. Captioning:

  • Provides Equal Access: Ensures that deaf, hard-of-hearing, and LEP audiences can fully engage with your content.
  • Improves Comprehension: Captions make it easier for viewers to follow along with complex information, improving understanding and retention of the content.
  • Increases Engagement: Studies show that captioned videos have higher engagement rates, as captions enhance the overall user experience.
  • Boosts SEO: Captioned videos are more easily indexed by search engines, improving your website’s visibility in search results.

How We Ensure High-Quality Captions

At Natively Fluent, we use a rigorous process to ensure that every caption is accurate, well-timed, and easy to follow:

  1. Transcription: We start by accurately transcribing the spoken dialogue, sound effects, and background noises that are relevant to the viewing experience.
  2. Caption Timing and Placement: Our team ensures that captions are perfectly timed to sync with the audio, providing a seamless viewing experience. We also ensure that the captions are placed in a way that doesn’t obstruct important visual elements.
  3. Review and Testing: Each captioned video undergoes a thorough review and testing process to ensure that the captions are accurate, properly synchronized, and accessible across different platforms and devices.

 

Get a Quote for Captioning Services

Ready to make your videos and digital content accessible to all? Contact us today for a free consultation or to request a quote for our professional Captioning services.