Digital accessibility: captions, transcripts, and audio description
Captions and transcripts help students with hearing impairments or students who are neurodivergent understand your media. Audio descriptions allow students with visual impairments or cognitive disabilities to understand what is happening in visual media.
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 media or show media in your course, please make sure that captions are available and on for videos or that a transcript is available for audio recordings.
Visual media require audio descriptions. For many instructional videos, you can provide audio description by briefly describing any images on slides. If you are using slides with text, make sure that you include the same information while you're speaking. Describing images and cover 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 describe each step verbally in order to provide audio descriptions.