FREE WEBINAR

Take your first steps towards becoming a captioner

Subtitling for the Deaf 
and Hard of Hearing
& Closed Captioning


What will you learn?

The absolute fundamentals of captioning

  • What is subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH) and closed captioning (CC)? Is it the same thing?

  • What is the difference between regular subtitles and SDH/CC?

  • Who are the users of SDH/CC and what are their needs?

  • What are the conventions used in SDH/CC?

  • What are the most common errors that beginners make when creating SDH/CC?

  • What skills do you need to become an SDH subtitler/captioner?

  • How to add SDH subtitles/closed captions on social media platforms?

  • Agnieszka Walczak photo
  • Agnieszka Szarkowska photo
  • Lukasz Dutka photo

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Find your place in media accessibility

  • Agnieszka Walczak, PhD, media accessibility expert, global language operations manager, translator, subtitler, audio describer and translator trainer

  • Prof. Agnieszka Szarkowska, audiovisual translation researcher, translator trainer, media localization consultant and academic teacher, head of AVT Lab

  • Łukasz Dutka, PhD, translation and subtitling trainer, SDH subtitler and closed captioner, QCer, template creator, respeaker, live subtitler