Tag Archives: accessibility

YouTube improves accessibility support

November 20, 2009 - 5:13 pm

Google announced today two new features for YouTube: automated captioning and automated time-aligning of transcripts (called automated timing). The video provides the best introduction: Basically, you can now have your typist create a transcript of your video and then directly upload that to YouTube, which will use speech recognition to time-align the transcript and turn [...]

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Subtitles have huge impact on video SEO and viewership

May 18, 2009 - 11:37 pm

Subtitles and Captions are key to making video content accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing people. This in and of itself should be enough motivation to create subtitles for your videos. But if you need more reasons, read on. In my long years of working with video I have been encouraging everybody who publishes video to [...]

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