Government

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Census Bureau Captioned Video

Summary: The U.S. Census Bureau uses YouTube-captioned videos to communicate with different constituents.

Detail: Because the Census touches all Americans, reaching out to explain the 2010 Census process is important. The U.S. Census Bureau has turned to YouTube to communicate with citizens. The videos are captioned, and the accompanying transcripts are used to generate foreign language translations. Several videos are translated into Spanish, and the captions are translated as well.

External Link: Census Bureau YouTube captioned video

Services: Transcription, Captions & Subtitles, Result Review

UK Accessibility Workshop With JISC

Summary: This workshop was presented by the UK organization JISC on accessibility polices and best practices. It was captioned by CaptionSync.
 

Detail: JISC Legal is a publicly-funded organization which assists UK colleges and universities with ICT-related legal issues. As part of this, it gives guidance on meeting legal accessibility duties which come from the Disability Discrimination Act of 1995. JISC Legal recorded video guidance in this area, with the participation of a number of experts.  In order to set an example of accessibility good practice and to use the video in different contexts, JISC Legal commissioned the captioning of this recording.  The finished video meets the needs of deaf and hearing-impaired users, but also assists those who work in an environment where reading the text is easier than listening, and provides everyone access to the clarity of text where complex legal duties are being discussed.

External Link: JISC Accessibility Webcast with Captions

Services: Transcription, Captions & Subtitles

Benefits to Your Department from Captioning

• Fully Compliant … with Federal ADA and Section 508 regulations.
• Higher Quality Media Products … Instructional videos, training presentations, webcasts, and internal messaging events.
• Increased Inclusion of Diverse Audiences … Make your content accessible to everyone with English as a second language through compliant AND discoverable content by Search Engines.
• Improved Sensitivity to Customer Needs … Creating captions is the first step to providing translation through subtitles. Improved navigation and increased inclusion.
• Increased Crowd-gathering through Discoverable Media … Captions make media indexable and searchable.

Departments Who Benefit

• Departmental Training
• Employee and Citizen Relations
• Internal and External Communications
• Human Resources
• Media Production and Broadcasting

Purchasing is Simple

Initial funding for CaptionSync came from the US Department of Education’s SBIR program, so our history of working with government buyers dates back to our very beginning. Since then, we have provided services to hundreds of government clients … from the Library of Congress to state and
county offices. Our experience with government clients makes the process easy for you.

• We accept government purchase orders.
• We accept government P-cards for payment, as well as ETF and checks.
• We maintain an active and up-to-date enrollment in CCR and ORCA.
• We are a GSA Schedule 70 vendor.

What Are You Planning?

What AST CaptionSync Provides

• Low Cost Solution
• Dependable Quality from Human Transcription
• Training Resources for Your Staff
• Cutting-Edge Automation for Rapid Results
• Ease of Use
• Experience with Large and Small Organizations
• VPAT

Some Government Clients Using CaptionSync

Pricing

• Web-based pay per use service.
• No software to buy or install.
• Choose just the services needed (you can provide your own verbatim text transcript to get captions, or you can have us do the transcription for you, or just get a transcript).
• Pay online via credit card or Visa/MasterCard branded purchase cards.