Accessibility services
Making your content accessible to a larger audience
You’ve poured hours of hard work into your creative project, now you need to make it accessible to everyone. I’ll produce subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH) and timed audio description (AD) scripts that conform to your preferred guidelines and make your content come alive for audiences with vision or hearing loss.
Many countries have legal requirements related to captions or audio description. Here in the UK, whether you’re a traditional broadcaster or a streamer, you must ensure that at least 80% of your total content is subtitled, and 10% is audio-described. But this shouldn’t just be a box-ticking exercise. High-quality SDH and AD is essential if you want diverse audiences to get the most out of your content.
Subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)
Subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing, also known as closed captioning, goes beyond transcribing just the words that characters say in a film or TV programme. As a professional subtitler, I take careful consideration of timing and style requirements, and add standardised markers to help viewers who are D/deaf or experiencing hearing loss to identify off-screen speakers and plot-pertinent sound effects and music.
Audio description (AD) script writing
Audio description allows blind and partially sighted audiences to get the full experience of TV and film via an additional audio track that explains what’s happening on screen. Thanks to my formal training in audio description, I will describe expressions, body language, movement and other relevant action in your media using clear and concise language that conveys the whole picture without information overload or distraction from your carefully crafted movie or TV show.