CaptionMatch gives the example of a man with a hearing impairment who wants to attend a lecture in a museum, but realises he will need real-time captioning to be able to follow it. He registers the job on CaptionMatch, and a local captioning company expresses interest in doing it, providing a rough costing. The man contacts the museum, which agrees to pay for the captioning. CaptionMatch requests that the caption provider pay a matching fee of $10, plus 8% of actual billing to cover their costs.
Organisations which have meetings or other events that they want captioned can also use CaptionMatch to seek expressions of interest from caption suppliers.
CaptionMatch is an interesting initiative with the potential to alert organisations to the value of captioning, and streamline the process of organising captioning. However, its success will ultimately depend on the willingness of organisations to pay for captioning after requests are made.
CaptionMatch is in its prototype phase and is designed to be an international service. We maintain a list of trusted Australian captioning suppliers.
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