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Adding Captions to Your YouTube Videos

If you record videos for your class and upload them to YouTube, you have an accessibility tool for creating closed captions.

If you do not have a YouTube channel, it’s free and easy to get. Use the same log-in for YouTube that you use for your Gmail or any other Google account.

Here’s How to Provide Closed Captioning

When your video has finished uploading, YouTube will give you a screen to add a title and description of your video.

First enter a title and description for your video.

Then click on “Publish.”
     Add a title and descrption to your newly uploaded YouTube video.

Then click on the title of your video.
        To add alt-text to your video, click on the video's title.

Choose “Edit Video.”
The next step is to click on "edit video."

The next step is to click on “transcriptions.”
The next step is to choose transcriptions.

Underneath “Subtitles,” click on “Published Automatic.”
  Under the heading subtitles, click on "Published Automatic."

This will take you to the transcriptions page.

Click on the “edit” button.
 Now click on the "edit" button.

YouTube makes a first pass at closed captions.

Go into each section and make any updates.
 Update the closed captions provided by YouTube.

When you have made all the edits, click on “Publish.”
 Click on "publish" when edits are finished.