- [Narrator] An important accessibility concept
is providing a text or typed representation of content
that is visual or oral in nature.
A video usually has qualities of both,
so to make it accessible for all of your learners,
it'll need captions as well as a transcript.
Captions usually appear at the bottom of the screen
and a transcript is usually a separate document.
Both are text-based and they provide a typed version
of the video's content.
Providing access to text-only versions of your videos
allows students unable to see or unable to hear the video
an opportunity to learn from it.
However, students who do their classwork in noisy settings
like cafes or in a very quiet setting like a library
often appreciate the text representations of videos.
They allow the students to access video content
at any time under a wide variety of circumstances.
Transcripts can also be useful study aids.
When you're ready to caption a video,
YouTube, a popular video hosting platform,
provides a user-friendly self-captioning feature.
It allows you to transcribe your video and it will
sync the transcription with the audio track
to produce captions.
If you usually work with a script when you record
your videos, YouTube also allows you to easily upload
your script as a transcript file.
YouTube can use the text in the file to create captions.
Other captioning options you might explore
are crowdsourcing and third party vendor options.
To crowdsource means to loosely organize a group of people
to work together to complete a task.
In this case, you could crowdsource your students
to caption your videos in YouTube.
You could also research third party vendors or companies
that specialize in video captioning.
They can be a good option when your videos need to be
captioned sooner than what crowdsourcing can provide.
Once your video is captioned and you have a transcript
to accompany it, your video is ready to be posted
in your learning management system.
In most instances, you can either link to the video
or embed it on the page.
Make sure your transcript is in an accessible document
format such as Microsoft Word or a text file
and post it near the video so that your students
can readily access it.