Unpacking Captioning for Accessibility

Pete McCauley

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Keywords: captions, subtitles, video production, video captioning


Abstract

Whether you’re implementing a fully online course, hybrid, or flipping your face-to-face classroom, you’re probably using a lot of video content these days. To be compliant with accessibility standards, it’s important to make captions available to your audience. In this presentation we’ll be giving an overview of captioning options and workflow recommendations for delivering video online. Whether you’re delivering video using YouTube, Vimeo, Moodle, or some other method, we’ll discuss and demonstrate both services available and DIY methods for ensuring that your videos meet accessibility requirements. This presentation is intended for beginner to intermediate users of video captioning tools & services.

Related URL: http://z.umn.edu/unpackcaptions


Author Biography

Pete McCauley, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Pete McCauley is the Principal Audio/Visual Media Producer with the College of Education & Human Development, where he assists faculty and instructors in creating and using multimedia to aid and enable teaching and learning.