As more and more content is exclusively available online, now more than ever people need closed captioning on the internet. This article from Huffington Post is a well-written editorial asking online content creators to get their videos captioned. Here’s a pretty interesting statistic from the article: “It is estimated that one in every six people on Earth … Read more
Creating closed captions for YouTube is a relatively straight-forward process. Let’s break down the steps. 1 – Transcribe Your Video First you will need to transcribe the audio. I recommend breaking down the transcript line by line so it will be easy to implement the captions later. For example: Line 1: Hi this is Flawless … Read more
Apple has announced that all iTunes videos must have closed captioning by June 30th or the video will be removed from the iTunes platform. According to ZooDigital, the iTunes store has a serious lack of captioned content: “In a review of captioned content conducted in early June, ZOO discovered that approximately 18% of the movie … Read more