Subtitle standards around the world

(document produced by Code-In student Deborah Chan)

Countries under ATSC standards:

Old: CEA-608 New: CEA-708

Asia/Pacific:

South Korea United States Minor Outlying Islands (American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands)

North America:

Bahamas Canada Dominican Republic El Salvador Mexico United States (including Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands)

South America: Suriname

Countries under DVB standards: EN 300-743 http://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_en/300700_300799/300743/01.05.01_60/en_300743v010501p.pdf

Africa: Kenya South Africa Madagascar

Asia: China Hong Kong Iran Israel Japan Malaysia Philippines Taiwan

Europe: Cyprus Denmark Finland Iceland Italy Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia Sweden United Kingdom

Australia: http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/1105_freetvguidelines.pdf

Croatia: http://dhap.hr/en/articles/criteria-for-quality-subtitlin/8

France: (only available in French) http://www.csa.fr/content/download/20043/334122/file/Chartesoustitrage122011.pdf

Ireland: www.bai.ie/en/download/128530/

Countries/Areas with more than 1 standard found: Canada: https://www.dcmp.org/caai/nadh218.pdf http://www.cab-acr.ca/english/social/captioning/captioning.pdf http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2012/2012-362.pdf

EU: https://tech.ebu.ch/docs/tech/tech3350.pdf?vers=1.0

United Kingdom: http://bbc.github.io/subtitle-guidelines/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/futuremedia/accessibility/subtitling_guides/online_sub_editorial_guidelines_vs1_1.pdf http://www.channel4.com/media/documents/corporate/foi-docs/SG_FLP.pdf

Unites States: https://backlothelp.netflix.com/hc/en-us/articles/215758617-Timed-Text-Style-Guide-General-Requirements http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/mag/services/captioning/faq/sugg-styles-conv-faq.html http://transition.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/closedcaption.pdf http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=72eb5a624e8dc043293819a5663dff41&node=47:4.0.1.1.6.1.1.1&rgn=div8=47 https://www.smpte.org/sites/default/files/24TB-FCC-Technical-Requirements-20120908.pdf