Are You Required to be Caption Compliant?

Does your facility receive federal or state funding?
Does your facility purchase or use media in the classroom?
Does your facility use videos that are rented or personally owned?

If the answer to any of these questions is Yes, you are required, by Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, to have all media captioned for the hearing impaired. (www.section508.gov)

Caption Services: provide Universal Access of videos and classroom-based courses through off-line video captions and remote on-line captioning.

Service Focus: provide customizable service to address educational institutions’ need of providing access to students with hearing or language disadvantages.

Weekly Service Capacity: 200 video hours or 400 remote captioning sessions.

Capacity Flexibility: expandable if advanced notice is given.

Our captioners and transcriptionists are trained at the highest level, with over 10 years experience, using the highest technology available.

Service offering: currently provides personable services and total solutions with fast turnaround and affordability for following needs.

Off-line Video Captioning/Subtitles
Real- time Classroom Lecture Captioning
e-Notes (web posting of course notes)
Language Translation (English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese)

Copy Release Submission Service

For all publicly available media, copyright laws are very strict. Because the educational institution is the owner of the material, law requires the “Copy Release” forms be submitted to distributor by the owning institution. We offer services in filling out and filing copy release forms, as required by law, prior to beginning and during the captioning process.

Why Caption?

Captioning offers the following important benefits:

ADA Compliance: Compliance with ADA or Section 508 which mandates all media content should be captioned.
Captioning allows a larger community to have access to videos or classroom lectures. Captioning/subtitles is now a key element of video presentation and design.

Captioning improves comprehension for all viewers, especially persons with hearing disadvantage or those learned English as a second language.
Underdeveloped English skills on the part of the listener or heavy accents on the part of the speaker all work to deteriorate the message being communicated. Captioning can improve comprehension in all these cases.

Why e-Notes?

e-Notes provides schools a cost recovery model to ensure providing remote captioning is financially viable. By collecting a small fee from all students registered for a course offered with e-Notes, the school can address the long-lasting demand of students looking for course notes. e-Notes literally provide schools a solution with following advantages to beat the underground, unauthorized sale of course notes :

Copyright: by providing legitimate, verbatim course notes, which will be approved and released by the instructor, e-Notes will bear copyrights with a high level of accuracy .

Class Attendance: by using a course-specific, session-specific ID which is to be given out by the instructor at the beginning of each lecture session, e-Notes will provide verbatim transcripts only during course hour and class attendance will be ensured.

Piracy : web-access to course notes for after-hour use, or for students who have legitimate excuses not to attend a session, will require approval from the course instructor and will apply security measures against unauthorized access from non-registered students. This prevents students from acquiring course notes illegally such as selling files to each other.

What software and equipment are needed?

All software used for remote captioning and e-Notes are web-based. There is no need for students or instructors to install any software.
Internet access such as WiFi or Ethernet is required in the class room to be used for remote captioning or e-Notes.
The instructor will require a notebook PC to relay instructor’s voice from the classroom to the captionist.
An instructor handout will be provided to show a step-by-step procedure.

Sample Customer/Video Subject List

De Anza College	San Jose State University
- Auto Tech Department - Psychology Department - Massage therapy Department - Science Department - Science Department IIS Department Paralegal Department - Reference contact: Donna Bradshaw	- Special Ed Department - Nursing Department - Psychology Department - Reference contact: Maria Smythonis
Foothill College
- Business Technology - Reference contact: Brenda Davis
Stick It In Your Eye Video Productions
- Families Can - Reference contact: Greg Barchenfeld

Service Fees and Rate Schedule

1. OFF-LINE VIDEO CAPTIONING/SUBTITLES

Single Item

VHS to VHS Caption $5.15/video minute

VHS to DVD Caption $5.15/video minute

DVD to DVD Caption $5.15/video minute

Contract — Bulk Rates

1-50 VHS or DVD 10% discount off regular pricing
51 – 200 VHS or DVD 15% discount off regular pricing

Copy Duplication

VHS $9.95/copy

DVD $6.95/copy

Form Submission $55.00

Revision $5.15/video minute

Services Included :

Setup Fee No Charge

Transcript Fee No Charge

First Revision No Charge

2. REMOTE CAPTIONING

$110.00 per captioning hour

(This includes the COMPLETE set-up and take-down process.)

3. e-Notes (Must be ordered together with Remote Captioning)

Setup Fee $95/course

(This includes work with instructor for notes approval process.)

Course Notes Web Posting $30/session

(Hosting and archive charges are included for the whole course)

4. LANGUAGE TRANSLATION

$5.15 per language for each video minute