Requirements

Audio-only content need transcripts.
Video-only content needs audio descriptions or written equivalent.
Videos need captions and may need audio descriptions or written equivalent.

[WCAG 1.2.1,WCAG 1.2.2, WCAG 1.2.3]

Already met? Skip to Next Button.

Learn More:

Directions

Video Camera on colorfully patterned background

Image from Pixabay.

Clemson Online has developed a separate guides for creating captions and descriptions.

DIY Video and Audio Accessibility Guide

Clemson Online is also partnered with captioning services that can be leveraged to meet your transcribing, captioning, description, and subtitling (foreign language captioning) needs.

Clemson Online's Multimedia Accessibility Services

Checking Your Work

To better determine if the video captions were applied correctly, use the following process:

In Canvas, run a UDOIT scan. UDOIT will alert you if:
- You have a Vimeo video linked or embedded in the course. (This is a suggestion alert)
- You have a YouTube video with autocaptions embedded or linked in the course.

Last Updated Summer 2018