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.