Dicapta Earns Schedule 738-II Contract from U.S. General Services Administration

Winter Springs, Fla. -- Dicapta, a U.S. leading provider of Spanish-language captioning and video descriptions for educational media for blind and hearing-impaired students, was recently awarded a U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule 738-II Contract for Language Services, to provide compliant closed-captioning of digital video to federal agencies. Maria Diaz, president and chief executive officer of Dicapta, said the GSA Schedule 738-II contract significantly broadens the market of government customers Dicapta can serve. “Dicapta already provides captioning and video descriptions to federal, state and local government agencies that purchase services outside the GSA Schedule 738-II protocol,” Diaz said. “Now that we are a registered GSA vendor, we can serve government customers for whom the GSA Schedule 738-II contract simplifies the procurement process,” Diaz explained. Diaz appointed Elizabeth Jaramillo, Marketing Communications Manager at Dicapta, as liaison between Dicapta and its GSA Schedule 738-II clients. “Dicapta, a certified minority business since 2009, has an established track record providing high quality, complete and accurate media accessibility at competitive rates, both through the GSA schedule as well as to our clients in the private sector,” Jaramillo said. Captioning of digital video content is required of many agencies to meet federal mandates for media accessibility by blind and hearing-impaired persons. Federal Communications Commission regulations and the recent 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act requires broadcasters to caption much of their fare as well, Jaramillo said. Dicapta also provides real-time captioning in Spanish. Dicapta’s clients include Harpo Productions/The Oprah Winfrey Show, PBS, Univision, V-me, HITN, and MGM Latino. Dicapta also provides services for the Library of Congress and the United States Department of Education. “Complete and accurate closed captions are requirements for thousands of video publishers, who must satisfy state and federal mandates for content accessibility for deaf and hard of hearing audiences,” Diaz said. “Producers also incorporate captions to make videos searchable, and to improve viewer comprehension. Captioned text reinforces learning and allows text search for easy back-reference and review, an important training benefit for companies serving multilingual customers. Caption files also provide a ready source for foreign language translation,” Diaz said. For more information about Dicapta’s services both in the commercial sector as well as through the GSA contract, please contact Elizabeth Jaramillo at 407-389-0712 or at ejaramillo@dicapta.com. Dicapta is a client company of the University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program located at 1511 E. S.R. 434 in Winter Springs.