Whats the difference between CART and captioning?
There’s a significant overlap between CART and captioning, and often consumers don’t make any distinction between them, calling everything “captioning”. Properly speaking, captioning refers to words displayed on a video screen, usually underneath or next to whoever’s speaking. Closed captioning means that the words can be turned on or off by the viewer. Scripted television programs are closed captioned by qwerty typists. Live television programs are usually closed captioned by stenocaptioners. Television stations combine the caption feed with the video and broadcast it to television sets around the country. Scripted open captioning is offered by organizations such as the Caption Coalition, whose captioners use qwerty keyboards to display the text of plays and musicals for Deaf and hard of hearing theater patrons. Live open captioning is what’s usually referred to as CART. Clients can read the CART provider’s realtime output from a laptop, tablet, or netbook screen, or the CART display
