Establishing a Sustainable, System-wide Caption Program

Date & Time

Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 3:20 PM PDT  

Location

Orange County 1-2  

Description

Learn how Utah State University (USU) created a centrally supported caption system to professionally caption 85% of 11,422 videos across 74 campus YouTube channels.

Over a four year period, the process to develop a campus wide system has included: identifying public video content on YouTube, creating campus wide awareness of video content in need of captions, establishing and implementing a Video and Audio Accessibility Standard with campus partners, and finding and developing resources to support captioning across campus.

Once a standard and resources were in place, we used various tools to audit all campus YouTube channels to find essential information about the caption status of each video. We met with representatives from every college and division to share that information and help them identify funding.

The first audit of our YouTube channels was completed in 2020 and showed that only 22% of our videos were captioned. Since the standard took effect in July of 2022, we have increased the number of professionally captioned videos to 85%, and all newly published videos have been captioned.

Initially this work was a manual, time-consuming process, but over time we have created tools to automate almost every aspect of that process. We are excited to share how a combination of awareness, policy, technology, and relationship-building have been used to create a sustainable culture of accountability around inclusive and accessible video content.

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Audience

• Higher Education
• Government
• Media & Publishing
• Marketing

Audience Level

Intermediate  

Session Summary (Abstract)

Learn how the Digital Accessibility Services team at Utah State University (USU) created a centrally supported caption system by establishing a policy, developing training resources, creating auditing tools, and fostering campus partnerships.  

Primary Topic

Captions & Transcription  

Secondary Topics

• Deaf and Hard of Hearing
• Development
• Digital Accessibility
• Education

 

Session Type

General Track  

Presenters

• Megan Cox
  Utah State University
• Christopher Phillips
  Utah State University

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