Does your business or organization serve a linguistically-diverse audience, including members of the hard-of-hearing and deaf community or foreign language speakers, but can’t find the right solution to best connect with these individuals? Fortunately, Language Connections specializes in providing its customers with multilingual sub captions and translation services to help your organization effectively communicate with its client base in compliance with different regulations.
What Are Multilingual Sub Captions?
There are two main types of written text used to complement audio: sub captions and subtitles. Sub captions are defined as real-time text appearing at the bottom of a screen projection to provide written script for viewers or listeners that are a part of the deaf or hard of hearing community. Unlike subtitles, sub captions can also use specific sound effects, music, and additional audio cues that are important to properly conveying the message being spoken. Sub captions can be presented in multiple languages or regional variants. For example, if an English speaker from Ireland is presenting, due to the difficulty of regional variation, an American audience might have a difficult time comprehending the spoken message and would therefore benefit from sub captions provided in American English.
Providing multilingual sub captions for your diverse audience not only makes your media content more accessible to a larger audience. It also enhances the viewer’s experience by providing a form of localization services that can help them better understand the speaker’s language.
Regulations And Compliance For Multilingual Sub Captions
There are multiple federal regulations and entities that outline how and when certain industries must provide sub captions for their audience. Civil rights laws, including the Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), prohibit discrimination and require that accommodations be made to ensure equal access for different language communities, including translation and interpreting services.
For example, within the media sector, broadcasters, cable companies, and satellite television service providers must provide closed captioning for 100% of all new, non-exempt, English language video programming, especially for those who are considered as having limited-English proficiency (LEP). This ruling is enforced by the Federal Communications Commission (FFC) under the Communications Act. While there are additional regulations describing how and when sub captions should be provided for diverse viewers to maintain federal compliance, providing multilingual sub captions is a common sense investment that improves the viewer experience for all.
Why Choose Language Connections?
Here at Language Connections, we have over 30 years of experience providing professional sub captioning translation services. As a provider of professional business translation services, enabling your organization to maintain federal compliance is of the utmost importance to us. Whether you require sub captions for a single ad campaign or a series of elearning video modules, we have the resources to accommodate your needs. We also guarantee some of the best competitive rates in the industry and are proud to offer services in over 100 popular languages.
About Language Connections:
Language Connections is one of the top language service companies in the US. Over the last 30 years, we’ve focused on providing the best business translation services, interpreting services, as well as interpreter training and customized language training programs. In addition to top-tier corporate language training, we offer certified corporate interpreters and professional business translation services in 200+ languages. Our network includes linguists with backgrounds in all major industries. They’re ready to meet your needs, whether they’re for technical translation services, legal translation, government translation services, international development translation services, education translation services, life sciences translation, or something else. Reach out to us today for a free quote on our cost-efficient and timely translation services, interpreters, or other linguistic services.
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