How to Add Captions to Videos

Course details

In 1998 the US Congress amended the Rehabilitation Act to require Federal agencies to make their electronic and information technology accessible to people with disabilities. Section 508 was enacted to eliminate barriers in information technology, to make available new opportunities for people with disabilities, and to encourage development of technologies that will help achieve these goals. The law applies to all Federal agencies when they develop, procure, maintain, or use electronic and information technology. Under Section 508 (29 U.S.C. § 794d), agencies must give disabled employees and members of the public access to information that is comparable to the access available to others.

Learn how to be compliant with this law so your videos follow government requirements. A professional video producer will show you how to be Section 508 compliant in this course.

This course will walk you through:

• How to create captions
• How to edit captions
• How to export caption files
• How to embed caption files to online videos like on YouTube and Vimeo