Specifically, the rise in video within education and business has spurred a lot of questions about video captioning and accessibility, from Section 508 compliance to ‘unlimited’ captioning services.
Google Trends for Interest in “Video Captions” in the U.S.
#Turn on closed captioning professional
With more and more educators and businesses using video as a professional tool for sharing instructional and informational content on-demand, video captioning has become a more important topic than ever before. Among the fastest-rising uses are teaching, training, and communicating. Universities and businesses have expanded their use of video too, creating hundreds of new applications for video. Today, nearly 75% of all online traffic is streaming video. But today, with online video platforms like Panopto, YouTube, and Vimeo, and a smartphone in nearly everyone’s pocket, people are creating and streaming video content more than ever. Video once was a medium generally limited to television programming and physical video files like VHS tapes (and later, DVDs). Video content, in particular, has changed since the inception of the ADA. And media companies, corporations, and universities began captioning video content more consistently for the deaf or hard of hearing. Deaf children in public schools got interpreters and access to a better education. The passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) in the United States in 1990 was intended to bring about sweeping change for people with physical and cognitive challenges, and in many ways, it did.Ĭities, buildings, and businesses invested in structural changes to accommodate people in wheelchairs.
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