# Audiovisual localization & accessibility > Subtitling, captioning, dubbing, audio description, and media QA designed as one accessible localization system. [Localization capability](https://admas.net/capabilities/localization/index.md) ## The challenge Timed media fails when translation is separated from spotting, reading speed, speaker identity, sound cues, shot changes, dubbing constraints, and accessible delivery formats. We model the complete media path: source preparation, transcription, timing, translation, adaptation, recording, mixing, packaging, and player behavior. Language and accessibility requirements are validated against the actual picture and audio, with separate treatment for subtitles, captions, SDH, dubbing, voice-over, and audio description. ## How Admas works 1. **Specify the experience:** Define audiences, locales, accessibility needs, platform profiles, file formats, reading-speed rules, and acceptance criteria. 2. **Localize in time:** Transcribe, spot, translate, condense, adapt, record, and author sound and speaker cues against the media. 3. **Conform and verify:** Run linguistic, temporal, visual, audio, accessibility, and technical QC in the delivery environment. ## Typical outputs - Timed-text and accessibility specification - Localized subtitle, caption, SDH, dubbing, or description assets - Terminology and adaptation notes - Conformance and media-QC report ## Frequently asked questions ### What is audiovisual localization & accessibility? Subtitling, captioning, dubbing, audio description, and media QA designed as one accessible localization system. In practice, the work is bounded by a defined product or model decision, named audiences and locales, representative inputs, and acceptance criteria that can be reviewed. ### When does a team need audiovisual localization & accessibility? Timed media fails when translation is separated from spotting, reading speed, speaker identity, sound cues, shot changes, dubbing constraints, and accessible delivery formats. The useful starting point is the smallest representative flow that can expose the cause, impact, and ownership of the problem. ### What does a audiovisual localization & accessibility engagement include? Specify the experience: Define audiences, locales, accessibility needs, platform profiles, file formats, reading-speed rules, and acceptance criteria. Localize in time: Transcribe, spot, translate, condense, adapt, record, and author sound and speaker cues against the media. Conform and verify: Run linguistic, temporal, visual, audio, accessibility, and technical QC in the delivery environment. ### What should we provide before audiovisual localization & accessibility starts? The most useful inputs are representative source content or builds, target locales and audiences, brand and terminology guidance, release timing, known legal, safety, and and accessibility constraints. Admas can begin with a partial package, but missing context, rights, access, owners, or acceptance criteria will be made visible in the plan rather than treated as harmless assumptions. ### What does Admas deliver for audiovisual localization & accessibility? Typical outputs include timed-text and accessibility specification, localized subtitle, caption, sdh, dubbing, or description assets, terminology and adaptation notes, and conformance and media-qc report. Deliverables are adapted to the team that must use them, with decisions, evidence, limitations, owners, and next actions made explicit. ### How is the quality of audiovisual localization & accessibility evaluated? Quality is measured against the real task and risk. Relevant evidence can include meaning and terminology accuracy, task completion in context, linguistic and functional defect severity, market acceptance, and rework and turnaround. Sampling, severity rules, reviewers, adjudication, and pass or fail thresholds should be agreed before the result is used as a release decision. ### Can AI replace the human work in audiovisual localization & accessibility? Automation can prepare files, pretranslate suitable content, enforce terminology, and flag mechanical defects. Translators, editors, market reviewers, localization engineers, testers, and program owners remain responsible for meaning, audience fit, product behavior, exceptions, and release decisions. The right allocation depends on consequence, content stability, available references, language coverage, reversibility, and the cost of a plausible but wrong result. ### How much does audiovisual localization & accessibility cost? The estimate changes with word or asset volume, content type and risk, language pairs, workflow and file condition, review depth, turnaround, and engineering and project-management effort. Pricing should distinguish setup and discovery, repeatable units, specialist or engineering time, independent review, management, and external costs. A low unit price is not comparable if it excludes the QA cycle or shifts rework back to the buyer. ## Related localization services - [Product localization](https://admas.net/capabilities/localization/product-localization/index.md): Continuous localization for interfaces, help content, release notes, and product journeys. - [Multimedia localization & transcreation](https://admas.net/capabilities/localization/content-transcreation/index.md): Market-ready text, audio, video, campaigns, and product narratives that preserve intent rather than syntax. - [Localization quality assurance](https://admas.net/capabilities/localization/localization-qa/index.md): Human and systematic checks for meaning, consistency, layout, locale behavior, and release risk. - [Continuous localization operations](https://admas.net/capabilities/localization/continuous-localization-operations/index.md): Release-connected localization workflows that move multilingual product content safely from source change to production. ## Start a project - [Build a project brief](https://admas.net/start-a-project/index.md?focus=localization): Tell Admas what you are building, which modalities and languages matter, and where progress is blocked.