Candidates: Captioning

Campaign Ad Captioning Law (2008)

To include closed captioning for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers, as required by Minnesota Statutes, Section 10A.38, on all professionally produced visual or audio recordings of two minutes or less produced for the purpose of influencing the nomination or election of the candidate by broadcast, cable television, candidate’s web site, and radio, or file with the board [MN Campaign Finance Board] a statement setting forth the reasons for not doing so before the advertisement is disseminated.

Minnesota citizens who are deaf and hard of hearing who want to get information about candidates through political ads will now be able to do so.

Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board

Captioning Resources and Demonstrations

Senator Rest demonstrates here the power of captioning in creating accessibility

Website produced by MCDHH offering resources and examples of accessibility

DCMP List of Approved Captioning Vendors

According to recent CNET News, YouTube recently released a new Web-based application called CaptionTube that lets users add text captions to their online vidoes. CaptionTube is a collaboration between YouTube and Google and is found within YouTube’s TestTube section.

Be seen, heard, and read

With CaptionTube you can create captions for your YouTube videos. It’s easy to use and it’s free.

• Offer viewers a transcript to read.
• Improve discoverability and searching for sales and training videos.
• Create and edit closed captions in multiple languages.
• Export captions and upload them to your YouTube account.
• Simple and secure sign in using your Google account.