Accessibility

Last updated 9 October 2026

CaptionKit exists to make church services accessible: live captions so people who are deaf or hard of hearing can follow along, and live translations so people can follow in their own language. We want the tools attendees use to be accessible too. This page covers the CaptionKit mobile app and the caption pages attendees open on the web. It describes what we support today and what we're still working on.

Captions and translations

• Live captions of what's said in the service, and live translations into more than 200 languages.
• Translated audio: where a church turns it on, attendees can listen to the translation, with the matching captions shown alongside.
• Right-to-left languages, such as Arabic and Hebrew, are displayed right to left.
• Churches can also show captions on screens in the venue, for people who'd rather not use their phone.

Mobile app (iPhone, iPad and Android)

• Screen readers. Every control works with VoiceOver and TalkBack, with names, roles and states such as “Listen, on”. You can also turn on Read new captions so the screen reader speaks each caption as it finishes.
• Larger text. Choose a caption size in the app, and captions also follow your device's text size, up to twice as large. Layouts wrap and simplify at the largest sizes, so text isn't cut off.
• Dark and light themes. Dark is the default, for dimly lit rooms. You can switch to light, or follow your device's setting.
• Speech. Captions can be read aloud with your device's voices, or with high-quality voices where your church offers translated audio, at a speed you choose.
• Following along. Captions scroll automatically, which you can turn off, and the screen stays awake during a service.

Caption pages on the web

• Captions are shown in large text and scale with your browser's zoom.
• Dark and light themes.
• Controls, including Listen, the theme switch and the language picker, are labelled for screen readers.

Known limitations

We're open about where we fall short today:

• Captions and translations are generated automatically, so they can contain mistakes, especially with names, places and unusual words. Churches can add custom vocabulary to improve accuracy.
• On the web caption pages, screen readers don't announce new captions automatically, and there's no text-size setting on the page itself. Browser zoom works.
• We haven't fully tested Voice Control or reduced-motion settings in the app yet.
• The CaptionKit dashboard, used by church staff, isn't covered by this page yet.
• CaptionKit hasn't yet been independently audited against an accessibility standard such as WCAG.

Feedback

If something in CaptionKit doesn't work for you, or you need help using it, please email help@captionkit.com. We read every message, and accessibility problems are a priority for us.