In order for Buffalo State to remain compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), it is important to have all online videos accurately captioned.

YuJa Auto-captioning

The most efficient way for faculty and staff to do this is to store their videos in our YuJa Enterprise Video Platform and have them auto-captioned using Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered captioning. This is an accurate (advertised as 95%), free, and easy way to make sure your video materials are compliant. For existing videos that you upload to YuJa, caption in just a few clicks. Videos made through the YuJa "Create Recording" button are captioned for you automatically once they are uploaded.

If needed, there is also the possibility for Editing Captions in the Video Editor in YuJa - either for typing out your own captions from scratch or making corrections to existing auto-caption files.

Rev.com

Alternatively, faculty and staff can complete the Request Captioning ticket in our Self-service Portal. When this ticket is submitted, Instructional Design & DIstance Learning (IDDL) staff will submit the requested video(s) to rev.com, a professional captioning service that will add accurate captions to your order and return it directly to your YuJa account, usually in 24 hours or less, depending on the length of the video. For class-related videos, there is no charge to the faculty. For other videos, IDDL staff will consult with you before submission to the service.

YouTube Captioning

Any videos you may store in YouTube or any other location should also always be captioned. YouTube provides Automatic captioning. The Automatic captions may need to be edited for accuracy. Check out the additional YouTube captioning resources.

YouTube allows you to also add your own captions and upload a transcript to your YouTube Video

Thank you for helping Buffalo State achieve its goal of being a leader in Universal Design for Learning - "to design curriculum that can be used and understood by everyone and to eliminate barriers in the learning environment to create learning experiences that are accessible to all people regardless of their differences."

Transcripts

Resource for making a scripts: The Art Of Writing Great Voiceover Scripts

When searching videos from YouTube, it’s good practice to select CC (Closed Caption) as a filter option so that only videos with closed caption are displayed in your search results.  Users can determine if the captioning has been enabled by the presence of ‘CC’ in the lower right hand corner of the YouTube player.