VITAC
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VITAC is an American audio transcription company that is headquartered in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. It provides services such as closed captioning, dubbing, and audio description services. The company has over 700 employees1, with clients ranging from broadcast networks, to government agencies and educational institutions. VITAC is owned by Israeli company Verbit.
VITAC is an American audio transcription company that is headquartered in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. It provides services such as closed captioning, dubbing, and audio description services. The company has over 700 employees, with clients ranging from broadcast networks, to government agencies and educational institutions. VITAC is owned by Israeli company Verbit.
Advocacy
From 2007 to 2010, VITAC campaigned with the Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology (COAT) on the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010. The company served on the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Video Programming Accessibility Advisory Committee for benchmarking captioning TV shows via IP from 2010 to 2012, and was appointed by the FCC to help create a Closed Caption Quality Best Practices guide in 2014. From 2016 to 2020, VITAC served on the FCC’s Disability Advisory Committee, a group formed to provide advice and recommendations to the commission on a wide variety of disability issues.
See also
Closed captioning Subtitling Post Production
References
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