Video Captioning

Captions are crucial for making videos accessible, especially for:

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• Deaf and hard of hearing folks

• English language learners

• Those with central auditory processing disorder

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Open captions are always visible and can't be turned off.

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Closed captions (CC) can be turned off.

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Locating Captioned Videos in YouTube:

 

When searching YouTube for videos to share, select Filter along the top of your initial search results.

Next, navigate to the fourth column entitled Features and select Subtitles/CC.

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Captioning Videos

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It may be easiest to start with a transcript.

 

One way to generate a transcript while recording your video:

In Google Docs: Tools--Voice Typing (or alt+shift+S)

Edit transcript

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Next, after uploading your video to YouTube,

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Auto-captions

Edit captions

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Resources:

National Association of the Deaf: How to Caption Your Video

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