CNN isn’t the only company being targeted by rights activists for lack of captions in its video streams; Netflix also is being taken to court over not providing accessible videos for the hearing impaired. In a lawsuit filed Thursday, the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) accused Netflix of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by not providing captions for most of its streaming videos. | more

A disabilities rights group sued CNN this week for not providing closed captions for its online videos. The lawsuit, which was filed against CNN parent Time Warner in Alameda County Superior Court on Wednesday, puts the issue of captioning back into the spotlight, and a defeat for CNN could have significant implications for every online video provider in California. | more

Active Transcript is a powerful tool that increases user engagement with videos and boosts video SEO.
Active Transcript allows the viewer to search for a word within a video (in any of the available languages) and get directly to that point in the video by clicking on the text from within the transcript. | more

In November 2010, a federal court ruled that the federal government of Canada must make its websites accessible by relying on the updated (version 2.0) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. | more

Overview of U.S. accessibility regulations regarding online video captions.
By Matt Knopf | more

SubPLY Online Service is an online system for ordering and managing Transcripts, Captions and Subtitles for web videos. Using the system will enable you to Link/Upload a video file, order Transcripts, Captions or Subtitles, pay for the service using PayPal and receive what you ordered using your account. | more

As the holiday season approaches, we'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued partnership. It is business associates like you who make our jobs a pleasure and keep our company successful. | more

SubPLY, a captioning technology provider, is finding that captioning, a long-mandated feature in television, is also quite valuable in online video. Whereas in TV captioning has largely been a regulatory-driven requirement, captioning in online video is strategic as well, as VP of Business Development Matt Knopf explained to me recently. | more

This act includes a number of provisions intended to increase access to video programming on television and the internet, require as access to the user interfaces used to access information online via smart phones, and require access to on-screen menus for DVD players and set-top boxes. | more

SubPLY by PLYmedia was one out of 31 companies that participated in the bid.
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See Matt Knopf, our VP of BizDev, interviewed on Beet.TV | Interview with Matt Knopf

PLYmedia presents LIve Captions: a new service that transcribes and captions videos in real time. See the CrunchUp demo here and here. | Read more on TechChrunch

PLYmedia and Ooyala will colaborate to make video accessible to the hearing impaired and enable greater search engine visibility. | more

PLYmedia will present the Federal Communication Commission with a solution to extend online video access to the hearing impaired. | more

The new add-on enables JW users to add subtitles and closed captioning layers onto the video screen and more. | more

SubPLY is happy to launch its Automatic Transcript Service, based on speech-to-text and OCR technologies. | more

PLYmedia, SubPLY's parent company, is proud to have been chosen as one of Red Herring's Top 100 promising private ventures. | more

Results from a recent trial show that subtitles increase the duration of time that users spend watching online videos by almost 40%. | more

With SubPLY's API's you can now create transcripts and automatic translations of your captions. | more

SubPLY is proud to provide The Story of Stuff with subtitles in eleven languages for the celebrated site's new International Section. | more