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Captioning videos for deaf access

Captions are not optional, and they help everyone.

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Community Media Maker· 8 credits to certificate

Why captions matter beyond accessibility

Around 1 in 6 adults in Europe lives with some hearing loss. Captions make videos usable for them. But also: 85% of social media videos are watched on mute. Adding captions roughly DOUBLES average watch time. For short videos use YouTube's free auto-captions then EDIT THEM, auto-captions get names, places, and accents wrong. For event recordings, MixCaptions, AutoCap, or Otter.ai…

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