Digital Accessibility

Creating Accessible Video

WCAG 2.1 Level AA compliance for video requires making video content accessible to individuals with disabilities. Key aspects include:

  • Captions: Providing synchronized text captions for all prerecorded audio content, and for live audio.
  • Audio Description: Offering audio descriptions for all prerecorded video content, narrating important visual information during pauses in dialogue. Alternatively, a descriptive transcript can be provided.
  • Transcript: Supplying a text transcript that includes both the audio and relevant visual information. This is essential for video-only content.
  • Keyboard Accessibility: Ensuring all video player controls are navigable using a keyboard.

Essentially, the goal is to provide equivalent information and functionality for individuals who cannot see or hear the video content.

Requesting Captioning in Kaltura

Kaltura Capture uses Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) captioning, which produces a text file that is then associated with media (video or audio) in Kaltura Capture.

Ordering Captions Using Kaltura Capture