{"id":85575,"date":"2020-03-04T22:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T04:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allyant.com\/?p=85575"},"modified":"2025-08-27T13:06:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:06:25","slug":"closed-captioning-vs-audio-descriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allyant.com\/blog\/closed-captioning-vs-audio-descriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Closed Captioning Vs. Audio Descriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When creating videos, sometimes the most challenging thing is figuring out how to make them accessible to all audiences. To make accessible videos, one may have to include closed captioning and audio descriptions, depending on the video content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closed captioning has been around for many years. It is included in most programming and consists of a subtitle track that contains the text of the dialogue (and who is speaking it) and indications of other non-speech sounds that are happening while a show is playing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Audio descriptions are a newer technology that can supplement closed captioning. Audio descriptions provide narration tracks within the audio stream, describing what is going on visually on the screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below is a table outlining a few key differences between these technologies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/th>\nCaptions<\/th>\nAudio descriptions<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Who They Serve<\/th>\nPeople who are deaf\/hard of hearing<\/td>\nPeople who are blind\/low vision<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
How They Are Incorporated<\/th>\nInto the visual stream of the video<\/td>\nInto the audio stream<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
What They Convey<\/th>\nSpoken dialogue, who is talking, and non-speech sounds<\/td>\nWhat is happening on-screen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
How They Are Created<\/th>\nCaptioner adds subtitle file, including sounds heard in the audio track<\/td>\nAdd an audio track on top of the original soundtrack to describe what\u2019s seen visually<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When creating videos, sometimes the most challenging thing is figuring out how to make them accessible to all audiences. To make accessible videos, one may have to include closed captioning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":85933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t