Auditory Accessibility: Transcripts for YouTube Videos

There are three relatively easy methods/places to use to check the accessibility and correctness of closed captioning on YouTube.

1. Watch the video through the subtitle editor with the “edit timings” turned on. This will allow you to make spelling and timing changes as you realize they are necessary.
   

   

2. Watch the video in the regular way and make sure that the captions line up with the speech properly, don’t have too much or too little text at a time, and stay up long enough to be readable. You will have to take notes and then proceed to the subtitle editor to make the necessary revisions.
3. Review the transcript (in the information section below a video which often contains credits, information about the video, etc., choose “more” and scroll to almost the bottom. There should be a button to “show” the transcript). This may allow you to have an easier time reading the text as sentences and noting places that need correction in spelling, punctuation, etc. You will still have to fix things within the “subtitle editor,” but it may be easier to see and revise the text for correctness when multiple lines are visible at once.