Video Accessibility

Captions

Captions are crucial for video accessibility. Closed captions can be added to video recordings using the following:

• Microsoft Stream
• Zoom
• YouTube
• YuJa (expected Fall 2024)

If you are teaching in the Real Time Online, Combined Online, or Sufflex modalities, make sure to allow students to turn on live transcription (i.e. real time transcription) in Zoom. 

Audio Description

Audio description is a voiceover track that describes the visual action taking place in a video. For example, audio description would describe a video of a magician performing a trick so that people who cannot see the video would be able to understand it.

YouDescribe allows users to create audio descriptions for their own and others’ YouTube videos. For more information about YouDescribe, please see YouDescribe Audio Description (AD) Tool Step By Step Instructions.