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Caption Style Guide
Mon, 12/08/2008 - 16:48 — ejp10
A lot of us have heard about the need to caption online videos, but may not have considered the whay they should presented
The following guide, Keys to Captioning, is a style guide to what the standards for captions are
http://www.dcmp.org/captioningkey/text.html
It include topics such as placement, how many lines (2 lines max in most cases), switching voices, background music and other important topics.
FYI - Thanks to Wendy Mahan for pointing this out to me.
controversy
Joe Clark is such a big name in accessibility and captioning that I have to post this link to his response to The Captioning Key .
It's a great read, full of resources; though it starts as a blast against the CMP for their original choice to publish the Guide as a huge PDF file. I'm thinking Joe helped fix that…
While I'm here, some of my other resources are:
Caption Keys not just in PDF
Joe's comments must have worked because Caption Keys is available in HTML format (but I do remember the huge PDF.)
Thanks for adding the other resources.