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Audio Transcriptions: Helping Both Deaf and Hearing Website Visitors

In the name of accessibility, it’s considered good form to provide text versions of any audio or video recordings included on your website. In fact, depending on the nature of your business or organization, you may even be required to do so! Transcriptions enable deaf and hearing-impaired visitors to take full advantage of your website. Even if someone cannot hear the information as originally conveyed, they should still be able to reasonably access it and use your site; if you want to have them as your customer, that is!…

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OK, I've got my transcript and my subtitle file. Now what?

Our last blog post discussed why you need video transcription for your website. New guidelines by the Department of Justice have moved ensuring accessibility of your online material from a nice-to-have to a real need. You’re onboard the accessibility train and you’ve got transcription services lined up to bring your website’s video library up to spec. Your completed transcriptions are starting to come in, and you’re ready to take the next step.…

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Why You Need Video Transcription For Your Website In 2018

Though it may not seem like it, there’s a lot of the Internet that people don’t understand. We don’t mean in terms of confusing apps or content in other languages; today, we’re talking about web accessibility. In 2018, the Department of Justice is due to announce new guidelines for web accessibility. When that happens, the rules for what websites need to do to ensure accessibility will be official…not to mention potentially enforceable.…

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How Can Your Business Use Transcription Services?

Here at CastingWords, we want to provide a text counterpart for every type of audio and video recording our customers can produce. We provide reliable transcription services to our customers so they can keep focusing on what matters to them; their own businesses and lives. A good percentage of our customers come to us with occasional projects, ordering one or two transcripts here and there. But some businesses come back time and time again, relying on our help with large quantities of material and recurring projects.…

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