Captions are important to make sure everyone—including deaf, hard-of-hearing, and viewers who speak other languages—can enjoy videos on YouTube.In 2009, you first saw a feature that automatically creates captions on YouTube videos in English, and since...
YouTube automatic captions now available in Spanish
Cross posted from the Blog de YouTube en EspañolLast year, YouTube had more than 1 trillion views, or about 140 views for every person on earth. As the world tunes in to YouTube, we want everyone, in every language, to have the same opportunity to enjoy...
Captions for all: more options for your viewing and reading pleasure
Since we first announced caption support in 2006, YouTube creators have uploaded more than 1.6 million videos with captions, growing steadily each year. We’ve also enabled automatic captions for 135 million videos, more than tripling the number of captioned...
Making the web more accessible, one step at a time
From text that is too small to read, to user interfaces that do not offer keyboard navigation options, users with special needs face a lot of challenges when trying to access websites they are interested in. We believe that extensions can complement...
