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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How People with Disabilities Browse the Web Using Assistive Technologies [Video Series]

YouTube playlist with series description and link/thumbial of each video in the series.

As I chatted with web design and development friends this month, I’ve discovered many have committed in 2022 to learning more about web accessibility.

They’ve asked me for resources and suggestions, and I shared accessibility resources from my site as well as many online resources and books.

One resource I highly recommended was recently published: the Browsing with assistive technology video series from TetraLogical.

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