Creating Accessible Video Files

YouTube and various other tools now make it easy to share videos with your users. But what about your users with hearing impairments? Include captioning on your videos so that deaf users (or even people using computers without speakers) can watch the video and still understand the message. We've even put together a list of tools to help create captioning on your videos.

Related Tools

Web Captioning Overview - WebAIM

This article is a general discussion of captioning video files. It takes a top-down approach, explaining basic concepts rather than getting into detailed techniques for each media type.

Accessible Multimedia - University of Wisconsin - Madison

This overview page does a good job of explaining the basics of how video accessibility fits into the Section 508 accessibility mandate.

Making Video Accessible - Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access, Georiga Tech University

Self-paced online tutorial designed to show you how to make multimedia accessible for individuals with disabilities... transcripts, captioning and audio descriptions.

Flash Accessibility - WebAIM

Basic overview and how-tos of Flash accessibility.

From Adobe
  • Flash Accessibility
    Provides numerous resources for Flash developers - including best practices, an FAQ, and coding examples.
  • Developer Connection
    Adobe brings together an online community of Flash developers and offers accessibility solutions for problems ranging from trivial to complex.
  • Developer Documentation
    Includes a great deal of technical information on the Accessibility class built into ActionScript 3.0.
  • Accessibility Blogs
    The Adobe blog is a good source for up-to-date news regarding Adobe products, including Flash, Dreamweaver, and Acrobat PDF.