Years of
Experience
By developing accessible communications for everyone regardless of their abilities, Dicapta focuses on making sure that media, entertainment, and culture are widely available and accessible for people with sensory disabilities, as well as for Latinos living in the U.S.
4000+ Hours
ACCESSIBILITY ASSETS PRODUCED
Emerging Technologies
DEVELOPMENT
1000+
BENEFICIARIES SATISFIED
I have personally worked with DICAPTA from my different positions in companies like Discovery, BBC, Vme and now HITN and have always felt them as true partners in all our close caption and dubbing needs.
Guillermo Sierra, Head of Television and Digital Services, HITN
We work together respecting our diverse cultural backgrounds, opinions, and beliefs, with the common goal of leading the efforts for an inclusive world.
Alfonso
Flórez
Daniel
Strauss
Xiomara
Huertas
Amanda
Cadena
Collaboration
Dissemination
Production
It is a pleasure to share with you our passion for using technology to enhance access to TV and Movies to everybody regardless of sensory abilities or limitations. Thanks to the resources received from the U.S. Department of Education- Office of Special Education-OSEP for the project, “Enhanced Access to Video for Students with Sensory Disabilities through Emerging Technology,” TV Access H327C210001, we are using technology to produce and deliver high quality audio descriptions and captions of selected educational TV programming and films to students with sensory disabilities.
We invite selected producers of TV/Films to review the general criteria for participating in our project.
Our Advisory Committee evaluates in detail the applicant content based on our Guidelines to Evaluate a TV Series.
These guidelines have been developed for Dicapta’s advisory committee based on the “National Assessment of Educational Progress” (NAEP or the Nation’s report Card) which periodically tests mathematics, reading, science, writing, the arts, civics, economics, geography, and U.S. history.
The content selected to be part of the program must promote critical thinking, reinforce concepts of math or science, touch upon elements of social studies, promote literacy, social development, or promote additional life skills or vocational activities.
We partner with The TV/Film industry leaders, consumer organizations, educational service providers, researchers, and accessibility experts to make sure that the accessible content produced under EnhAcceSS reaches the beneficiaries.
Dissemination activities include training workshops, TV campaigns promoting accessible content, awareness activities to educate the TV/Film industry on the needs of people with sensory disabilities, and participation in conferences, podcasts, newsletters of per organizations, and educational events on the field.
CC and AD created under EnhAcceSS are delivered in any and all of the platforms where our partners are presenting their content.
When approved by our content partner:
Our Production Team creates CC and of the selected content using emerging technology that has been developed, tested, and refined by users with disabilities, using users’ feedback; with the support of our Advisory Committee.
Following cultural relevance considerations, the AD and CC in neutral Spanish delivered under EnhAcceSS promise to serve the diverse needs of children with disabilities from Latino households, where Spanish is the spoken language.
Un carro rojo deportivo (Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Colombia)
Un coche rojo deportivo (España)
Un auto rojo deportivo (Argentina)
Neutral Spanish: Automóvil
Additional Dissemination Activities by DICAPTA in our YouTube Channel
