Stage Captions blog

Guide to Arts, Cultural and Performance Captioning in Scotland

Mon, 20 Jan 2025 15:04:29 GMT

Captioning of live events in Scotland

I have recently created a comprehensive free resource guide to assist arts and cultural organisations in Scotland in making their events accessible through captions. The guide may also be of interest to caption users interested in finding out how captioning works at both live events and scripted performances.

The guide covers areas like:

✓ The case for captioning an event

✓ Who uses captions

✓ Survey results capturing deaf people’s attitudes towards captioning as an access measure at live events

✓ The difference between 'live' and scripted captioning

✓ The different arts, cultural and performances spaces where captioning can be used

✓ The equipment needed for a captioned event

✓ Additional benefits of captioning your event -
such as multi-language captions for international audiences

✓ Testimonials from people with lived experience of using captions at live events and the perspectives of organisations who've provided captions at their events

Please feel free to share with anyone who may be interested.

2025 Captioning Guide

The guide can also be downloaded at The Federation of Scottish Theatre website at: https://www.scottishtheatre.org/resources/captioning-guide/

Moving to Edinburgh

louisam78@yahoo.co.uk (Louisa McDaid) — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 21:47:48 GMT

Moving day!

On 28th September 2020, I will be moving from Stirling to Edinburgh , based within two miles of Waverley Station. This gives me good commuter links to Glasgow, Stirling, Fife, and the north of both Scotland and England. Services will continue to be offered remotely for the time being. For onsite assigments, please contact me to discuss.

Live captions on the Zoom video conferencing platform

louisam78@yahoo.co.uk (Louisa McDaid) — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 21:14:24 GMT

How to add live captions to the Zoom video conferencing platform

This is the second in a series of factsheets on how to add live captions to video conferencing platform. This week, I will be looking at Zoom .

Adding captions to Zoom

Please feel free to download and share.

Live Captions on non-Zoom video conferencing platforms

louisam78@yahoo.co.uk (Louisa McDaid) — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 10:44:15 GMT

How to add live captions to non-Zoom video conferencing platforms

I will be publishing a series of factsheets on how to add live captions to video conferencing platforms like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Skype and so on. This week's factsheet looks at non-Zoom platforms.

Please feel free to download and share.

Adding captions to non-Zoom platforms

New website

louisam78@yahoo.co.uk (Louisa McDaid) — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 18:44:25 GMT

New website

Hello and welcome to my new website.

Since Lockdown began on 23rd March 2020, I have been working from home, providing live remote captioning services for d/Deaf and hard of hearing people in a variety of domains, including Access to Work funded online meetings, webinars, digital Arts festivals and even a theatrical performance.

Please feel free to look around and get in touch with any questions about how this service can benefit you, your employees or potential audiences attending your online events.