Welcome to the Disabled Citizens Alliance Captioning Request Form. Our mission is to enhance accessibility for all individuals within our community.

If you need captioning services for any of our events or materials, please complete the form below. Your requests are vital in helping us ensure that everyone can engage fully in our initiatives.

Organization: Disabled Citizens Alliance

Location: Washington

Focus: Accessibility advocacy, policy briefs, and community resources

Thank you for your dedication to accessibility. We value your input and are eager to assist with your needs. If you have any questions or require further assistance, please reach out to us through our contact page.

Tips for Making a Clear Captioning Request

A few details in your request make it much easier to arrange captioning that actually works for you. Whether you are attending a public meeting, a webinar or a community workshop, the more specific you can be, the better the result tends to be.

What to include

  • The event or material: name the session, video or document and the date it takes place or was published.
  • The format you need: real-time captioning (often called CART, Communication Access Realtime Translation) suits live events, while recorded videos usually need edited closed captions or a full transcript.
  • How you will attend: in person, by video call or by phone. Remote captioning is often displayed in a separate window or link, so it helps to say which devices you plan to use.
  • Other access needs: if you also use sign language interpretation, assistive listening devices or large-print materials, mention them together so arrangements can be coordinated.

Why advance notice matters

Qualified human captioners are often booked well ahead, especially for longer or technical sessions. Submitting your request as early as you can gives organisers time to find a provider, share agendas, speaker names and specialist vocabulary, and test the setup. Preparation materials help captioners render policy terms, acronyms and names accurately, which matters a great deal in advocacy discussions.

Automatic versus human captioning

Automatic speech recognition has improved, but it can still struggle with accents, crosstalk, background noise and specialised language. For meetings where precise wording matters, such as policy hearings or briefings, many people prefer human-generated captions. If you have a preference, note it in your request.

Captioning benefits far more people than those who are Deaf or hard of hearing, including people processing information in a second language and anyone in a noisy setting. To learn how communication access fits into our wider work, see our policy briefs or explore other community resources.

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