Knowbility Be A Digital Ally Series: Video Captioning

Knowbility Be A Digital Ally Series announcement.

Whether you’re deaf, hard of hearing, work in a quiet or noisy environment, or comprehend better with the written word, captioned videos benefit everyone.

Captioning is the text version of what is spoken in a video.

For readers of this blog, you know I’m a longtime advocate for video captions.

I’ve been writing about the benefits of video captions as well as video captioning success stories for years.

Which is why I’m excited about the third session in Knowbility’s Be A Digital Ally series.

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Seven Years of Asking: I’m Still Waiting for WordPress.com to Publish Captioned Videos

Hosted WordPress dot com home page as of February 2022, highlighting everything you need to build your website with WordPress with a call to action button to start your website..

I’m writing a post I didn’t think I would ever write. It’s about a multi-million dollar company where I’m a 10+ year customer.

And whose services I’ve advocated for years.

Which makes this post even harder to write.

In the past, I’ve contacted organizations and businesses about the inaccessibility of the content they’ve published on the web.

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Small Steps: Celebrating Two Accessibility Wins in One Week

Woman videographer behind video camera recording a session.

If you’re a longtime reader of my blog, you know I’ve been asking online publishers for years to improve the accessibility of their images, videos, and audio. From asking people to caption videos, add alternative text to their images, and transcripts to their podcasts, I’ve focused on educating others about creating media everyone can access.… Continue reading Small Steps: Celebrating Two Accessibility Wins in One Week