On-screen text of a video's spoken words. Most feed video plays without sound, so captions carry the message; burned-in captions are rendered into the video, while platform captions are a separate text track. Captions also satisfy accessibility requirements.
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Agency Echelon. "Caption." Agency Echelon Reference, reviewed September 2026. https://agencyechelon.com/reference/glossary/caption/