Top-notch accessibility for your community, based on your needs.
We help Public, Education, and Government broadcasters meet ADA and FCC accessibility requirements and better serve their community. Based in Garner, NC and Arlington, VA.
Expand your audience while meeting ADA requirements.
Your current broadcast signal is missing accessibility layers. Provide it to us, live or as a file, and we'll process it and return it "dressed" with one or all of them. You choose what languages or features you need; don't pay for anything you already have or wish to skip.
Translation and Dubbing
Deliver your content in more languages and reach non-English speakers in your community. Match the tone and voice of the original with emotive dubbing.
Descriptive Audio
Provide blind and low-vision audiences with accessible video by adding audio descriptions in post or real-time.
Subtitling
Subtitling in original source language is required, but don't stop there when you can add subtitles in multiple languages and serve the deaf, hard-of-hearing, and non-native speakers.
Speech to Sign Language
Go beyond text-based subtitles and provide sign language to reach an even larger audience. Automating sign language is hard, but with new models it's a solvable challenge.
Simplifying accessibility for local broadcasters.
Municipal Captioning was founded in 2017 by Daniell Krawczyk to help Public, Education, and Government broadcasters navigate ADA compliance and the noisy world of captioning options. Clients started asking for help with their master control systems almost immediately, and we've been doing both ever since.
DANIELL KRAWCZYK · FOUNDER
Over two decades in PEG media and government TV. Started at Grand Rapids Community Media Center in 2001, then moved to Lowell Community Television in Lowell, Mass, where he built the Digital Bicycle, the first broadcast-ready content-sharing platform for PEG. National sales director at TelVue, LiveU, and Cablecast before founding Municipal Captioning in 2017.
JACKIE STEVEN · MANAGING DIRECTOR
36 years in community media. Director of Community Programs at Arlington Independent Media from 1986 to 2022, where she helped launch WERA 96.7FM and ran the Rosebud Film Festival for 15 years. Served on the Mid-Atlantic and national boards of the Alliance for Community Media. Now Managing Director at Municipal Captioning, overseeing sales, engineering, and support.
ADA TITLE II · 2027 → 2028
The DOJ's 2024 Title II final rule requires state and local governments to make their public-facing web content and mobile apps accessible, including captions on any video where audio conveys information.Big municipalities — 26 April 2027. State and local government entities serving 50,000 or more people have to comply.
Smaller municipalities — 26 April 2028. Entities under 50,000 and any special district government get an extra year.
The legal risk is real. A complaint or lawsuit can be filed by any individual, whether they're a local resident or not. Your risk isn't based on the litigiousness of your local residents, but on lawyers anywhere in the country.
FCC · 47 CFR §79
Broadcasters and IP-delivered video providers have a second, separate obligation under the FCC's closed-captioning rules (47 CFR §79.1 for broadcast, §79.4 for streaming).If your content airs on a TV station or streams to households, it has to be captioned. Compliance is tracked per channel, per calendar quarter, and the rules apply equally to pre-recorded programming, live programming, and the IP-delivered version of anything you've already aired with captions on TV.
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