Courtroom Captioning
We continue to see an increase in the requests for CART captioning from participants in courtroom proceedings, including litigants, attorneys, and potential jurors. We provide captions remotely for all court proceedings. Our CART captioning is not the official record, it is for the participant only, and the transcript is destroyed immediately at the end of the proceedings.
How CART in court proceedings works: The Court provides an audio feed via phone or Zoom session to the CART provider. The CART provider uses the steno-to-English instant translation through their software with a streaming text service and sends that to a screen provided by the Court to the participant.
It is recommend that the official court reporter not undertake the dual role of making the record and providing CART. They are two distinct jobs, and the official’s primary responsibility is to produce a complete and accurate record, while the CART provider is a more interpretive function for the participant
Please check out the NCRA article for more details on the best practices for using CART captioning in the courtroom.
We caption for local, state, and national government clients.
Our government clients include many State of Oregon departments including the Oregon Legislature. We also work with the State of Washington, Veterans Administration, National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research, and Telecommunication Assistance Programs, and a variety of federal agencies, among many others. LNS began providing live captions for the State of Idaho
Legislative Session in 2020.
- Meetings and Public Events — LNS has extensive experience captioning government events such as city council meetings, conferences, legislatures, and more. We caption via Webstream, connecting to your own meeting platform, or through an iCap encoder for broadcast delivery.
- Web Videos — We can provide caption files for your web videos in whatever format you need: .scc, .srt, .vtt, .xml, etc.
The Americans Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act provide mandates for closed captioning requirements on various forms of visual media. Visit our FAQ page to read more about the current laws regarding closed captioning and check out the ADA Best Practices Tool Kit for State and Local Governments website to learn more about how you can expand accessibility to your audience.