![]() ![]() Platforms such as YouTube offer auto captioning, generating the closed captions when videos are uploaded. Use code AbilityNetTraining10 at checkout. Save 10% on professional training in 2022ĭo you work in higher or further education? Discover how assistive technologies can help your students and professionals learn and teach more effectively in our great value training course. Most, however, are focusing on ensuring that any new content complies with the regulation, and the back catalogue remains inaccessible to many, or worse, has been removed for fear of falling foul of the regulations (very much not what the regulations were designed to do). A disproportionate burden?ĭespite this need, with thousands of hours of content in back-catalogues and hundreds of hours added on a weekly basis many public sector and higher education institutions bound by the regulations are, understandably, claiming captioning this content represents a disproportionate burden. Beyond this, we also know that captioning content improves engagement and makes video content accessible in terms of permanent, temporary and situational impairments, such as watching in a crowded train (if you remember that) or a quiet library. The reasons for this are clear and few would argue against the need. This is great news, as one of the requirements of the Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations, is that video content is captioned. ![]() Live captioning is now available to everyone using a Google Chrome browser.
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