Accessible Video: Caption, Search, and Compliance Strategies

Learn how to increase the accessibility and discoverability of your videos. Add captions and transcripts using popular video editing tools such as Premiere Pro.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files

1. What Does Accessibility Mean?

• Why accessible video matters
• Understanding visual impairment
• Understanding hearing impairment
• What does "508 compliant" mean?

2. Scripts and Transcripts

• Working with script files and preparing them for captioning
• Using a transcriptionist for generating compatible transcripts
• Using software to generate transcripts
• An overview of caption formats

3. Optimizing Video for Visual Impairment Issues

• What is descriptive audio?
• When should you use descriptive audio?
• Improving visual contrast for graphics

4. Optimizing Video for Audio Impairment Issues

• Closed captions vs. open captions: When should you use them?
• Who benefits from captions?
• Additional benefits with captioning for social media

5. Adobe Premiere Pro Captioning Workflow

• Attaching captions in Adobe Premiere Pro
• Editing captions in Adobe Premiere Pro
• Embedding captions in an export with Adobe Premiere Pro
• Exporting captions as a sidecar file from Adobe Premiere Pro
• Advanced options with Adobe Media Encoder

6. Digital Anarchy Transcriptive Captioning Workflow

• Setting up speech engines with Transcriptive
• Creating transcripts with Transcriptive
• Conforming transcripts to an edit with Transcriptive
• Advanced workflows
• Exporting transcripts

7. Final Cut Pro X Captioning Workflow

• Attaching captions in Final Cut Pro X
• Editing captions in Final Cut Pro X
• Exporting video for broadcast and captions in a file with Final Cut Pro X
• Exporting video for the web and captions as a sidecar file from Final Cut Pro X

8. Understanding Captions and Transcripts for Web and Social Media

• Including a transcript with a video
• Uploading captions to YouTube
• Editing captions on a YouTube video
• Uploading captions to Facebook

Conclusion

• Next steps