Accessibility services that open your content to everyone
SDH, closed captions, transcripts and plain-language adaptation, in the original language or translated, aligned with EAA and WCAG expectations.
Language accessibility services make content usable across sensory and cognitive barriers: SDH subtitles, closed captions, transcripts and plain-language adaptation, produced in the original language or translated. Orion Translations delivers accessibility versions alongside its localisation work, aligned with European Accessibility Act and WCAG expectations, in more than 25 languages.
Accessibility is localisation for audiences you already have
Deaf and hard-of-hearing customers, blind screen-reader users, people reading in their second language: they are not edge cases but present, paying audiences whose experience of your content is entirely mediated by its accessible layers. Regulation (the EAA since June 2025) now says what inclusion always did.
The practical good news is efficiency: accessibility and translation share a production chain. One verified master yields captions, SDH, transcripts and translated versions of each, which is why building accessibility into localisation costs far less than bolting it on afterwards.
The accessibility deliverables, mapped
| Deliverable | Serves | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| SDH subtitles | Deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers | Speaker IDs, sound description |
| Closed captions (CC/SCC) | Broadcast and platform requirements | US-standard formats |
| Transcripts | Screen-reader users, search, records | Human-verified |
| Plain language | Cognitive accessibility, L2 readers | Rewrite with meaning preserved |
| Translated versions of all | Multilingual audiences | One master, every language |
How much do accessibility services cost?
Captions and SDH per video minute, transcripts per audio minute, plain-language work per project, with combined localisation-plus-accessibility packages sharing the verified master and priced accordingly. Content inventory to info@oriontranslations.com; itemised fixed quote within one business day, with an honest triage of where to start.
Compliance, without theatre
The EAA and WCAG ask for content that is perceivable and understandable, exactly what verified captions, honest transcripts and plain language deliver by construction. We document spec compliance per file for procurement and audit, and we do not sell gold-plating where a lighter deliverable meets both the duty and the need.
Accessibility across languages
Multilingual organisations owe accessibility in every language they serve: Spanish SDH for Spanish-speaking audiences, translated transcripts for international teams, plain-language migrant-facing communication. Our subtitle translation and e-learning localization chains produce the accessible versions in the same pass as the translations.
Content that includes everyone it was made for.
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Services that make content usable by people with sensory or cognitive barriers: SDH subtitles and closed captions for deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences, transcripts of audio and video, audio description planning for blind audiences, and plain-language adaptation, in the original language or translated. Accessibility and localisation are the same discipline pointed at different audiences.
- The EAA, applying since June 2025, extends accessibility obligations across digital products and services in the EU: e-commerce, banking, media players and more must be usable by people with disabilities, which for content means captions, transcripts and accessible alternatives. Public-sector bodies carry earlier, stricter duties. We produce the compliant deliverables; your legal team defines scope.
- Per minute for captions and SDH (modestly above standard subtitles for the editorial layer), per audio minute for transcripts, and per project for plain-language adaptation. Producing accessibility versions alongside your main localisation shares the underlying work and lowers the combined price. Fixed quote within one business day.
- Captions and SDH are timed, on-screen text carrying speech plus sound information for viewers who cannot hear the audio; a transcript is the full text as a document, essential for screen-reader users and search. Complete accessibility usually means both, generated from one verified master.
- Yes, and efficiently: one verified master feeds SDH, captions and transcripts per language, with translation handled by the same AV team, so the Spanish SDH and the English transcript describe the same sounds the same way. Multilingual accessibility is our normal case, not an add-on.
- Rewriting content so people with cognitive disabilities, lower literacy or limited language proficiency can use it: shorter sentences, common words, explicit structure, without losing the meaning. Public services, healthcare and finance benefit most, and it pairs naturally with translation for migrant-facing communication.
- With the content people depend on: video used for training or public information gets captions and transcripts first, essential customer journeys get plain-language review, and new content pipelines get accessibility built in rather than retrofitted. We help triage honestly, starting where obligation and impact overlap.