accessibility glossary

Video Accessibility

Accessibility applied to video content, covering closed captions, audio description, transcripts, and accessible video player controls.

Video accessibility covers several distinct elements working together: closed captions for people who are deaf or hard of hearing, audio description narrating important visual information for people who are blind or have low vision, a full transcript for people who prefer or need text, and a video player itself that is fully operable by keyboard.

Auto-generated captions are a common starting point but frequently contain errors serious enough to change meaning, which is why professionally reviewed or human-edited captions are considered the standard for any video content an organization is legally or reputationally accountable for.

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