Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- CEA-708 (CTA-708, EIA-708, Digital Closed Captioning)
- A US standard for digital closed captioning on digital television broadcasts and streaming, superseding the analog-era CEA-608 standard. CEA-708 supports richer presentation than its predecessor, incl…
- Dynamic Caption Tracking (Word-by-Word Highlighting, Synchronized Caption Highlighting)
- A caption display feature that highlights or visually emphasizes the word currently being spoken in the caption text, synchronized with the audio. Dynamic caption tracking helps viewers maintain their…
- Stenographer (Stenocaptioner, Court Reporter)
- A trained professional who produces real-time verbatim transcription of speech, typically using a stenotype machine that maps chorded key combinations to phonetic syllables. In accessibility contexts,…
- Subtitle (Subtitles, Open captions (video), Movie subtitles)
- On-screen text that reproduces the spoken dialogue of a video, most commonly rendered in a "movie subtitle" style (white text with a black outline, one or two lines at the bottom of the frame). Subtit…
- Tracked Captions (Speaker-following captions, Dynamic captions)
- Captions that move dynamically within the video frame to stay near the current speaker's face or mouth, rather than remaining anchored at a fixed position (typically the bottom of the video). Tracked …