The Jewish Captioning Initiative promotes captioning on videos with Jewish content to allow access for people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Benefits of Captioning:
- People who are Deaf or hard of hearing can become video users.
- Users can more easily search for your video.
- Once it is captioned in one language, it is easy to caption in other languages.
- Users who speak English as a second language prefer having captions on videos.
- Users watching more than one video at a time will benefit from captions.
- Users can watch videos with the sound off in places where it may be disturbing to play it with sound.
JADE advocates for the inclusion of individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing by encouraging anyone running a Jewish community event to offer an interpreter by adding this line to promotional materials:
“A sign language or oral interpreter is available upon request one week prior to the event”.
Click here for a list of Jewish Captioned Videos – This document is updated regularly.
For more information on any of the JADE programs and services, contact Yael Zelinger, yzelinger@cjeb.org or 410-735-5023.