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Federal
Captioning Mandates: What They Are and What They Mean To YOU by WGBH
Title II applies to public education
ADA Title II: State and Local Government Activities
“Title II covers all activities of
State and local governments regardless of the government entity’s size or receipt of
Federal funding. Title II requires that State
and local governments give people with disabilities an equal opportunity to benefit from
all of their programs, services, and activities (e.g., public education, employment,
transportation, recreation, health care, social services, courts, voting, and town
meetings.)”
ADA Text Re Captioning Videos
ADA Overview by the
National Captioning Institute
Captioning Web Laws applying to Captioning
Television Decoder Circuitry Act
of 1990 by NCI
Telecommunications Act of 1997
by NCI
This bill mandates that all Americans have access to captions
FCC Report and Order on
Captioning by the Caption Center at
WGBH
FCC Report Text
FCC
Government Page (includes information on web site accessibility)
Films produced for education will now
be produced with ADA mandates in mind and will be captioned. However, if
your school wants to produce its own educational videos, you will need to
understand the captioning process and resources necessary to caption your media yourself
or where and how to have it done. You may
also have older videos in stock that may need to be captioned.
Federal Law and Captioning by the Captioned
Media Program, a complete
resource for educators.
For More Information Contact:
AHEAD
Association on Higher Education and Disability
P.O. Box 21192Columbus, OH 43221-0192
(617) 287-3880 (voice/tt)
Important Note: You are not able to caption
the master video (unless you are captioning as you are creating it, e.g., through video
camera creation with a realtime captioner.) You create a duplicate master with the
captions on it.
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