VIDEO TRANSCRIPT OF USING TRANSCRIPTS AND CAPTIONS IN VIDEOS

An important accessibility concept is providing a text or typed
representation of content that is visual or oral in nature. A 
video usually has qualities of both, so to make it accessible 
for all of  your learners, it'll need captions as well as a 
transcript.

Captions usually appear at the bottom of the screen and a 
transcript is usually a separate document. Both are text-based 
and they provide a typed version of the video's content.

Providing access to text-only versions of your videos allows 
students unable to see or unable to hear the video an 
opportunity to learn from it. However, students who do their 
classwork in noisy settings like cafes or in a very quiet 
setting like a library often appreciate the text representations 
of videos.

They allow the students to access video content at any time 
under a wide variety of circumstances. Transcripts can also be 
useful study aids. 

When you're ready to caption a video, YouTube, a popular video 
hosting platform, provides a user-friendly self-captioning 
feature.

It allows you to transcribe your video and it will sync the 
transcription with the audio track to produce captions. If you 
usually work with a script when you record your videos, YouTube 
also allows you to easily upload your script as a transcript 
file.

YouTube can use the text in the file to create captions. Other 
captioning options you might explore are crowdsourcing and third 
party vendor options. 

To crowdsource means to loosely organize a group of people to 
work together to complete a task. In this case, you could 
crowdsource your students to caption your videos in YouTube. 

You could also research third party vendors or companies that 
specialize in video captioning. They can be a good option when 
your videos need to be captioned sooner than what crowdsourcing 
can provide. 

Once your video is captioned and you have a transcript to 
accompany it, your video is ready to be posted in your learning 
management system. In most instances, you can either link to the 
video or embed it on the page.

Make sure your transcript is in an accessible document format 
such as Microsoft Word or a text file and post it near the video 
so that your students can readily access it.