Our Mission
National Captioning Institute is a nonprofit corporation whose primary purposes are to deliver effective captioning services and encourage, develop and fund the continuing development of captioning, subtitling and other media access services for the benefit of people who require additional access to auditory and visual information.
As its resources permit and opportunities unfold with the development of new technology, NCI will support services to people who are deaf or hard of hearing and others who, for whatever reason, wherever situated and irrespective of their economic conditions, are limited in their ability to participate fully in the world of auditory or visual communications.
Who we are
The history of closed captioning is inextricably linked with The National Captioning Institute, the nonprofit corporation created in 1979 to provide the option of television access to deaf and hard-of-hearing communities and subsequently to those learning to speak English as a second language.
NCI’s established importance in the closed captioning industry extends well beyond historical significance, however. For more than four decades, we have used innovation and dedication to lead the way in providing high-quality service to viewers, and ground-breaking technologies to the content providers.
These technological developments have enabled the closed captioning industry to flourish, but it’s our training procedures and practices that have yielded the standard-setting group of professional captioners actually responsible for producing “those words on the screen.”
