Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2023L01210:reg:11
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2023L01210
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 11
Character Range: 7000–8169

11  Accuracy of captions

    (a)    When providing a captioning service for a program, broadcasters and narrowcasters must use captions that accurately recreate the soundtrack of a program.

    (b)    When determining whether captions accurately recreate the soundtrack of a program, the following factors must be considered in the context of the program as a whole:

        (i)            whether spoken content has been captioned;

        (ii)          whether the captions of spoken content are verbatim;

        (iii)        where it is not possible for the captions of spoken content to be verbatim, whether the captions reflect the actual meaning of the spoken content;

        (iv)         where the intended target audience of a program is children and the captions are not verbatim, the extent to which the captions take into account the intended audience;

        (v)           whether the manner and tone of voice of speakers has been conveyed, where practical and material; and

        (vi)         whether sound effects and/or music, material to understanding the program and not observable from the visual action, have been accurately described.