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Video Accessibility for Sports Content

Workflow automationWorkflow application4-6 week first releaseManage compliance

A sports video accessibility workflow that tracks caption status, deadlines and evidence across published clips instead of relying on an informal spreadsheet.

Problem

Accessibility work is easy to describe as a policy and difficult to prove at content level. On a busy matchday a clip can be published before captions are ready, a follow-up task can disappear under the next match, and the team may have no single record showing which published assets still need attention. When someone later asks whether the organisation followed its accessibility process, the evidence is spread across the social platform, editing tool and a spreadsheet that depends on manual updates.

Product idea

A video accessibility compliance register for sports content. Each published clip receives an accessibility status, owner, policy deadline and timestamped history. The first use case is captioning: not started, in progress, captioned, verified, overdue. The same model can later support transcript, audio-description or platform-specific checks where the organisation requires them. The tool tracks whether the organisation's defined accessibility process was completed; it does not generate captions or make legal determinations.

Where the AI agent does the work

A caption follow-up currently disappears under the next match because nothing is watching it once the clip is published. The agent tracks every published item against its policy deadline and nudges the owner before it goes overdue, rather than the gap surfacing only when someone later asks whether the process was followed. When that question does arrive, the agent assembles the answer — which clips, what status, what evidence — from the register directly instead of someone pulling it together from the social platform, the editing tool and a spreadsheet by hand. It does not generate captions or decide what the law requires; it keeps the follow-up from being forgotten and the evidence from being scattered.

Roles involved
Media operations coordinator, Social media manager, Head of content, Video editor
Relevant to
Professional club, League office, Women's league, Collegiate athletics
Systems in play
Social publishing tools, Spreadsheets, Digital asset management, Video editing and MAM platforms

A proposal worked through in full

A different problem, taken all the way to architecture, standards and a phased delivery plan — the level of detail any idea here can be developed to.

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Captions get added when someone remembers, which means they get added to the content that mattered least and skipped on the content under time pressure.

This proposed video accessibility workflow makes the obligation visible against each piece of published content, tracks what has been done, and keeps the evidence.

The obligation is organisational, not universal

Accessibility duties vary by jurisdiction, by organisation type and by where content is published, and a product that hard-coded one interpretation would be wrong somewhere immediately.

So the requirements are configuration the organisation sets from its own policy and advice: which content types need captions, which need audio description or transcripts, what standard applies and what the turnaround expectation is. The platform applies those rules and evidences the outcome. It does not decide what the law requires and it does not certify that anything complies.

Attached to content, checked before publish

Each published item carries its applicable requirements, current state, owner and evidence.

The state that matters most is the one most tools omit: published without the required accessibility work, deliberately or otherwise. Recording it honestly is uncomfortable and it is the only way the backlog becomes visible rather than accumulating silently.

Live content is the hard case

Real-time and near-live publishing cannot always wait for captioning, and pretending otherwise produces a policy nobody follows.

The workable pattern is an explicit rule for what may publish immediately, and a tracked obligation to complete the work within a stated window afterwards. That is a decision the organisation makes with advice. The product's job is to make sure the follow-up is owned and does not quietly expire.

Questions we get asked

Does this software create captions?

No. Caption creation stays in the editor, platform or captioning service. This workflow tracks ownership, deadline, completion and evidence.

Does using the register make a sports organisation legally compliant?

No. Applicable obligations vary by jurisdiction, platform and content. The organisation should define its policy with appropriate legal and accessibility guidance; the tool helps execute and evidence that policy.

Why not track captions in a spreadsheet?

A spreadsheet can work at low volume. The custom workflow becomes useful when teams need deadlines, ownership, escalation and an immutable history of status changes.

Can accessibility become part of content approval later?

Yes. Once the status data is reliable, a later integration could require selected accessibility checks before a publishing workflow can complete.

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