Capption
Reduces barriers for your visitors
Engagement with dignity
In a museum, gallery, park, zoo, or aquarium, curiosity knows no bounds. Unfortunately, while 69% of visitors prefer to learn about objects from wall labels, one barrier can sink their experience.
300 Million
Low-sighted individuals worldwide
31 Million
Socially-anxious people in the U.S.
Countless
Local and visiting non-native speakers
Capption accessibility technology makes exhibit information instantly available to non-native speaking, low-sighted, learning-disabled, and socially-anxious visitors directly on their smartphone.
By translating text into the precise format they need, Capption helps all visitors feel connected, avoid discouragement, and spark lasting curiosity.
How Capption Works
- Look for tags like this one at a participating institution.
- Hold your smartphone near the tag.
- Adjust text size and language to suit your needs.
Capption for Visitors
Barrier: Reduced vision
Adjust text for your preference
Straightforward text adjustment and support for native accessibility settings provide an optimal, tailored reading experience.
Barrier: Non-native speaker
Translated into your language
Capption respects the language settings on your phone, or choose your language in the app settings.
Content is instantly translated into any of 136 languages adding depth and promoting comprehension.
Barrier: Social anxiety
Read in your comfort zone
By transferring content to a user’s phone, Capption enables complete control of the reading experience.
Capption for Institutions
Promote inclusion
Offer persistent, always-on visual and language accessibility for every exhibit.
Deliver deeper engagement
Eliminate visual, language, and social barriers to foster maximum understanding and retention.
Mange traffic flow
Increase standoff distance from sensitive works and create multiple points of reference to an exhibit.
Capption is a lightweight experience with no institution-specific apps
No wiring, structural alterations, or experiential disruption.
Capption enhances exhibits
Simple, performant experience that boosts engagement without becoming a distraction.
Gain new insight
Learn about requested languages, popular pieces, and visitor trends and broaden your audience reach.
Capption Works
“Capption helped me engage more.”
“I’m impressed by its simplicity.”
“If I didn’t speak the language I’d depend on Capption.”
“I can understand the exhibit in peace.”
“Without Capption, I’m automatically blocked from understanding.”
“Capption felt comfortable — like I was reading in bed.”
“Without access to the story, I’m just looking at pretty stuff.”
“Capption helped me go at my own pace.”
“I knew I was reading what everyone else was reading without having to be different.”
“I’m old. If I can position to see the whole exhibit, there’s more walking back and forth.”
“Capption reduced the intensity of my visit.”
“The difference is night and day. Even with my vision, I could see the exhibit once I knew what it was supposed to be.”
Foster new belonging with Capption
Your visitors deserve to enjoy the wonder of art, science, and nature. Make engagement with your space equitable today.