Is It Out of Scope? — Web development

Is adding subtitles in another language out of scope for a web development project?

Yes. Translation and captioning work isn't a development discipline, and this holds regardless of whether the video is technically embedded in a site the dev team built.

As with editing a video's content, requests to add translated subtitles sometimes land with a dev team simply because the video lives on a site they built — but translating and captioning content is unrelated to embedding or displaying it.

Is it out of scope?

Yes. Translating the script and timing captions to the video is content/production work, not development, regardless of where the finished video is hosted.

Clause typically implicated

Clause typically implicated

Exclusions clause→ — The engagement covers development work — translation and captioning are excluded as unrelated content/production work.

Example contract wording

Example contract wording (illustrative, not legal advice)

Adding translated subtitles isn't development work — that's translation and captioning, outside our scope. Once you have the translated caption file, I can make sure it displays correctly on the site.

How MarginFlow flags it

MarginFlow flags translation/subtitle requests outside_scope on development contracts while noting in the explanation that implementing an already-translated caption file (once it exists) would be a much smaller, plausibly in-scope technical task — a useful distinction for the account manager to offer.

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