Including accurate captions for YouTube videos is essential to enhance their accessibility. This provides an alternative means for users with hearing impairments to access and understand the content.
If you are the owner of this video, you can add captions manually by using YouTube's caption methods. Before proceeding with the following steps, please ensure that you have saved your captions as a plain text file. See more information on the WCAG Guideline: 1.2.2 Captions (Prerecorded).
This YouTube Video Does Not Have Human-Generated Captions
- When creating your YouTube video, in the Add Subtitles section, click Add.
- Click Upload file.
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Choose whether to add subtitles with timing or without timing.
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Locate and select the plain text file on your computer.
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Once you’re finished, click Continue.
For information on how to manually add captions to YouTube videos, please visit their support page: Add subtitles & captions.
If you are not the owner of this video, ask the owner to add captions to increase the accessibility of the video.