Digital accessibility: captions and transcripts
Captions and transcripts help students with hearing impairments or students who are neurodivergent understand your media. Verbally describing visual information helps students with visual impairments or cognitive disabilities digest content.
If you use the Panopto media server to share content with your class, Instructional Technology Services will make sure your media is captioned. You can also correct captions in Panopto if necessary.
If you link to or show media in your course, please make sure that captions are available and turned on for videos or that a transcript is available for audio recordings.
For instructional videos, ensure you are verbally describing the slide’s content. For example, you can describe the images and repeat the information from each slide’s text while speaking. Describing images and covering textual information on the slides are helpful habits for in-person lectures, as well.
If you make and share demonstration videos for your class, such as videos showing lab procedures, be sure you verbally describe each step.