Accessibility FAST
Closed Captioning
Quick Start Guide
Getting started with captioning:
Use closed captions
Closed captions are a text file attached to a video, allowing viewers to toggle on or off the captions. Open captions, or subtitles, are burned into the video and not user choice. Use subtitles for additional languages in a video.
Leverage AI
Advances in AI have greatly improved transcription of audio to text. Use AI to generate captions, then edit for accuracy.
Use Kaltura Mediaspace
All content uploaded to Kaltura Mediaspace/My Media in Brightspace after October 2022 will have machine-generated captions automatically added. Review and edit captions for accuracy.
Use OneDrive
Videos uploaded to OneDrive will have captions automatically generated. Review and edit the captions for accuracy.
Live captions
In Teams:
In Zoom:
Note that automatic captions will not be accurate enough to meet accessibility standards, so plan to hire live transcribers and/or interpreters.
Prefer videos with captions
Moving forward…
Add and edit captions for your videos. Prefer captioned videos. A video is not finished until it is accurately captioned.
For more information on captions and transcripts, move to the next page.