Videos must contain captions so that those that have blindness or deafness can still perceive your content. For example, perhaps you have made a video of various locations across campus that you want potential students to know about. There is a soundtrack of music but no spoken word. In this case, the captions would contain an audio description of the images. This way, someone that has deafness will still be able to gain the information by reading the captions. Someone that has blindness will be able to perceive the information because their screenreader will read the captions to them. If the video images contained images of words, those words should also be included in the captions.
Captions must not be 'burned in' on the video. This not only causes issues for those distracted by captions, but it also renders the captions as a file that is not accessible. Caption files are .SRT formatted files and not only allow the viewer to turn captions on and off but it makes the captions available to assistive technology so they can be presented as braille on a refreshable braille device. See CAPTION FILES below for assistance.
Studio captions are at least 80% accurate and include punctuation.
To have voice to text turned on or to request closed captioning, contact the Echo360 administrator on campus, Don Lane. He can be reached at dklane@uta.edu or 817-272-3296.
