Captioning Checklist

Do the captions include:

• Speaker identification for multiple speakers?
• Dialogue and narration?
• Tone and manner of voice, as needed (whispering).
• Important sounds, such as an explosion and a fire alarm.

Are the captions:

• Accurate?
  • Free from grammatical errors?
  • Free from punctuation errors?
• Consistent (uniformity in style and presentation)?
• Clear (A complete textual representation of the audio)?
• Readable:
  • displayed with enough time to be read completely?
  • synchronized and appear at approximately the same time as the audio is delivered?
  • not obscured by, nor do they obscure the visual content?
  • Have enough colour contrast (4.5 to 1 for small-scale text, 3:1 for large-scale text) between the video and the captions?
• Equal:
  • the meaning and intention of the material is completely preserved?