Who benefits from captions on videos?

Date Updated: 
05/23/22

Captions make the content in video presentations accessible to individuals who are deaf. They alsoÌýbenefit many other video viewers. Beneficiaries include

  • individuals with language processing challenges who benefit from seeing the written word as well asÌýhearing it;Ìý
  • individuals who benefit from seeing the spelling of technical terms spoken in a video;Ìý
  • individuals who want to search for the section of a video covering a specific topic (by searching the captions); andÌý
  • individuals watching a video in a noisy area (for example, in a classroom where other students are interacting in groups) or quiet environment (for example, in the library).

To hear from many of the beneficiaries of captions, watch the video presentation Captions: Improving Access to PostsecondaryÌýEducation.

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