Thirty-six years ago today, President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act into law. The ADA didn’t create accessibility. It made inaccessibility illegal. That distinction matters, because the work of actually building an accessible world has happened in the decades since — unevenly, incrementally, and still unfinished. This year’s Disability Pride Month theme …
Disability Pride Month is a good time to ask a question most event organizers and webinar hosts have never fully answered: what does it actually mean for captions to be ADA compliant, and are the captions you’re producing right now meeting that standard? Most people assume captions are captions. They’re not. There’s a meaningful difference …
If your organization publishes on YouTube, closed captions are not optional. They affect who can access your content, how it performs in search, and whether the work you put into producing it actually reaches the audience you’re trying to reach. Here’s what to know before you decide how to handle them. Why do YouTube …
Most authors who end up translating their work didn’t plan it from the start. The decision tends to come later, after the book has found its audience in English, after a foreign publisher makes contact, or after the income math starts to make sense. If you’re somewhere in that process right now, here’s what’s worth …
In most industries, a transcription error is a nuisance. In legal and medical work, it can be something much more serious. A misheard drug name, a misspelled statute, a garbled expert’s name in a deposition — these aren’t just typos. They’re the kind of mistakes that require correction before a document goes anywhere, and finding …
If you work in program evaluation or nonprofit research, you’ve likely looked into qualitative research transcription services at some point. You finish a round of stakeholder interviews and suddenly you have hours of recordings, a coding framework ready to go, and a report deadline that isn’t moving. The only thing standing between you and analysis …
This is part 2 of our series on repurposing webinar content. Read Part 1: How to Repurpose Webinar Content Into Multiple Marketing Assets. Marketing teams are using AI tools to turn webinar transcripts into blog posts in minutes instead of hours. The workflow is straightforward: host your webinar, get it transcribed, upload the transcript to …
This is part 1 of a 4-part series on maximizing the value of your webinar content through accurate transcription and AI-powered content creation. You spent three weeks planning the webinar. You coordinated with speakers, sent reminder emails, rehearsed the demo, and watched the registration list climb. The day arrives, the presentation goes well, you get …
You record a heartfelt video message for your grandmother’s birthday. You tell her how much she means to you, share family news, and reminisce about childhood memories. You send it with love.She watches it with tears in her eyes but she can’t hear most of what you said. Her hearing loss means she catches fragments, …
You’re publishing full AI-generated transcripts on your podcast website because someone told you it’s good for SEO. More text means more keywords, which means better search rankings… right? Not quite. While the logic makes sense in theory, unedited AI transcripts often damage your SEO rather than improve it. Here’s why posting raw AI transcripts backfires, …