Accessible Content Creation
Creating accessible video content
Videos are great content type and most popular ones among many used in teaching learning environments. It is important to make sure that videos are accessible.How to make videos accessible? By providing captions and downloadable transcripts / audio descriptions to the video file. Captions are text versions of the audio of the video content in sync with it.There are two types of captions.
- Open captions are part of the video and cannot be turned off
- Closed captions are not part of the video and can be turned off and on
Usually when you upload a video to YouTube, it can automatically generate captions but they need to be manually checked to fix errors.
- You have to provide a transcript file for the video you use along with captions for the video you created
- Do you know that YouTube uses speech recognition technology to match the transcript file to the video
Also you have to make sure that you use accessible media player to deliver your video content
Useful Links
- Caption and description editing tool (Link Open in new window) (http://ncamftp.wgbh.org/cadet/)
- Captions and why they are useful (Link Open in new window) – This and below Videos are created by Jessica Kellgren-Fozard (https://youtu.be/6ZTRkXNXAfU)
- How To Caption Your Videos On YouTube (Link Open in new window) (https://youtu.be/LNl2bLJilt0)
- Don’t Do This! – How to do captions right! (Link Open in new window) (https://youtu.be/Vq6XVaEhpnk)
- The Secret Language of Captions DECODED (Link Open in new window) (https://youtu.be/tQqB8ondal0)
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