Why Good Captioned Videos Are Important – Meryl.net home
April 16, 2024
With the growing number of tools for captioning videos making do-it-yourself captions possible, so is the growing number of captioned videos with crappy captions. Sometimes people don’t realize the importance of something until they see a good and bad example side-by-side.This series of side-by-side videos tell the story of why each rule of awesome captions matter.
Source: Why Good Captioned Videos Are Important – Meryl.net home
As more and more of the Web becomes video, it’s likely many if not most developers (and designers, and product folks, and content folks, and…) will start working with it.
Video presents significant challenges for accessibility. We might think of this primarily as a challenge for the visually impaired, but it is also a very real challenge for the Deaf and hard of hearing.
And for that matter folks whose first language isn’t that of the video itself.
So captioning really matters. Here Meryl Evans highlights several areas where captioning can be improved, with great examples and I highly recommend it (and today and for the next few days I will be transcribing for captions a few dozen videos for Conffab so it’s vert apt for me.)
