This first iteration of PAMMTV’s best practices guide delineates our developing process for captioning and translating video artworks for in-person and online museum experiences. It introduces closed captions and captioning standards; our internal captioning process; and addresses the particular challenge of describing sound in artworks.

With this guide as a starting point, our long-term goals are:
• To cultivate a presentation, interpretation, study and care of contemporary media arts that reaches and reciprocally engages audiences across the Caribbean, Latin America and African Diaspora across language and ability.
• To nurture collaborative processes between artists, museums, and the audiences the captions are intended for.
• To advance accessibility in contemporary media arts by collectively identifying captioning and translation practices that extend the expressive potential of artworks.