Captions
Captions
The University of California has a contract with 3Play Media Links to an external site. to provide high quality, human-edited caption files at a reasonable price. Visit the Processing a Purchase Order for 3Play Media website to set up your department account.
Video content with multiple speakers must also contain "speaker identification" in the caption and transcript files. Please be sure to set up your 3Play Media account so speaker identification Links to an external site. is activated.
WCAG 2.0 Guideline 1.21 A Links to an external site. and 1.2.2 A Links to an external site.
Sources
Overview
Provide transcripts for audio-only recordings and captions for video.
Best Practices
- Basic caption format option: SRT (SubRip) (no styling available. OK for Talking Heads)
- Advanced caption format option: SCC (Scenarist Closed Caption), integrates well with 3Play and YouTube
- Make sure the caption and transcript files are accurate and complete
- Captions should include important sound effects
- If more than one person is speaking, the caption and transcript files contains speaker identification. This can include the speaker names or Speaker 1, Speaker 2, etc.
Creating Subtitles and Closed Captions on Your YouTube Videos
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