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Accessibility – Closed Captioning

Click on the CC symbol on our YouTube videos to toggle closed captioning on and off

To improve accessibility, we have ensured that all of our YouTube videos include Closed Captioning. All videos that we embed on our website come from our YouTube channel. Closed Captioning (CC) enables viewers to understand and enjoy the content of a video, even if they are unable to hear it.

So – why is it called closed captioning and not just captioning? The alternative to closed captioning is called open captioning. This means that the captions are always visible and cannot be turned off. In this case, the words are ‘burned in’ to the video. The disadvantage to open captioning is that words sometimes occlude action that is happening in the video. Additionally, any changes (such as a typo) in open captioning would involve hours of post production to update a video. With closed captioning, the feature can be toggled on and off. Closed captioning actually utilizes a text file synchronized with the video.

If you find a video on our site in which this step was accidentally overlooked, please e-mail us at cfbinfo@cfbisd.edu so we can rectify this immediately.

If you experience difficulty with the accessibility of any web pages or documents on cfbisd.edu, please let us know by filling out this form to request the information you need in an alternate format. A text link to this form can also be found in the footer of every page of our website, labeled “Accessibility.”

We will be publishing more articles on accessibility – click here to see all published articles in this series.