Captioning Resource List

Captioning Tutorials and Information

• Web Captioning Overview: A WebAIM introduction to Captioning.
• Web Captioning and Education - external link: National Center on Disability and Access to Education (NCDAE) introduction to captioning.
• Web Captioning in Education - external link: NCDAE webcast on captioning.
• Accessible Digital Media - external link: Design guidelines for electronic publications, multimedia and the web.
• Best practices in online captioning - external link: Joe Clark discusses captioning.
• The Open & Closed Project - external link: A captioning research project.

Screen Capturing Technologies (with captioning options)

• Camtasia Studio - external link: TechSmith
• Adobe Captivate - external link: Adobe

Captioning Tools and Services

• CaptionCaster: WebAIM's real time captioning solution.
• LNS Captioning - external link: LNS Captioning is a captioning and stenography provider..
• MAGpie - external link: National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) tool for creating captions on the web.
• CaptionKeeper - external link: National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) tool for converting TV captions into web formats.
• Caption Colorado - external link: Caption Colorado provides a variety of captioning services.
• Speche Communications - external link: Speche Communications provides realtime streaming text services.
• Automatic Sync Technologies - external link: Automatic Sync Technologies provides automated captioning services.
• MovCaptioner - external link: MovCaptioner is an easy-to-use program for captioning and transcribing Quicktime movies.

Captioning Flash

• Adobe Flash - external link: Adobe Flash home page.
• MAGpie 2 - external link: National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) tool for captioning web based media.
• Captionate - external link: Manitu Group's flash video captioning solution.

Captioning Quicktime

• Quicktime - external link: Quicktime home page.
• Quicktime Text Tracks Tutorial - external link: Quicktime text tracks tutorial.
• Captioning for Quicktime: WebAIM's Quicktime captioning tutorial.
• Quicktime Captioning - external link: University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign's Quicktime captioning tutorial.

Captioning RealPlayer

• RealPlayer - external link: RealPlayer home page.
• Captioning for RealPlayer: WebAIM's RealPlayer captioning tutorial.
• RealMedia Captioning - external link: University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign's RealMedia captioning tutorial.

Captioning Windows Media Player

• Windows Media Player - external link: Windows Media home page.
• Introduction to Captioning for Windows Media: WebAIM's Windows Media Player captioning tutorial.
• Windows Media Captioning - external link: University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign's Windows Media captioning tutorial.

Captioning Standards and Formats

• Quicktime Descriptors - external link: Description of Quicktime text tracks specification.
• RealText - external link: RealText Authoring Guide.
• SAMI - external link: Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange (SAMI) guide.
• SMIL - external link: The Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL, pronounced "smile") enables simple authoring of interactive audiovisual presentations.
• Timed-Text - external link: Timed-Text is a specification for syncronizing text to multimedia on the web.