Are you offering your staff/attendees/members access to the recordings of webinars and events? Have you checked if your recordings are accessible? You should offer either subtitles/closed captions on all your recordings (and although automated captions are terrible, I’d rather have automated captions than nothing at all) or a transcript (or…
Leave a CommentCategory: Subtitles / Closed Captions
Now that we are back in the office, half of the time as well as fully online meetings via teams, we also do hybrid meetings, where half of us will be sat together in a meeting, and the other half will be onscreen and will have dialled in remotely. This…
Leave a Comment
If you are hosting someone who is deaf or hard of hearing at your house for dinner, a party or even Christmas — make sure you learn how to use your subtitles. Particularly if you are intending to watch something on the telly. You can prepare in advance by following…
Leave a Comment
On July 15, 2021, Twitter announced the rollout of captions for voice tweets. We took your feedback and we’re doing the work. To improve accessibility features, captions for voice Tweets are rolling out today. Now when you record a voice Tweet, captions will automatically generate and appear. To view the…
Leave a Comment
As reported by Limping Chicken here the video conferencing app Zoom has announced that it plans to make automatic captions free and available to all users by the autumn. They really should have sorted it by now. Not only that, Autumn is still a long time for those of us who find…
Leave a Comment
So they still haven’t managed to get the hang of subtitles/captions for people with hearing loss on Video Conferencing Platforms. Discovered another petition on Change via Twitter. Support the provision of free captions by signing the petition. Thanks. http://chng.it/QsNW4gYzvK
Leave a Comment
The release of WordPress 5.6 contained several accessibility improvements, including the ability to add captions and subtitles to videos using the Web Video Text Tracks Format (WebVTT). Read more here.
Leave a CommentI recently came across this guidance from the BBC for the creation of subtitles and thought it was worth sharing. How do I create subtitles? This guide is an Introduction to subtitling for anyone who wants to create subtitles or open and closed captions. Read more here. BBC Accessibility: Subtitle…
Leave a Comment
It is important to make the content on your website and on social media accessible. There are lots of great tips out there for making your content accessible to all (such as using Alt. Text). However, there were a couple of my own that I wanted to share in relation…
Leave a Comment