Overview

Panopto is a great site for creating and hosting videos. Learn how to remove digital barriers so your content is accessible to as many people as possible.

Definitions:

Closed Captions (CC): These are the preferred style; they can be Closed (or hidden from the video) often indicated by a small icon labeled CC.
Open Captions (OC): these captions are like a late-night restaurant, always Open or always on, sometimes described as "burned in." These captions are often seen in social media where that is the only option for the application.

Note: Content under development

Captions

Auto-captioning isn't perfect, but it is a good first step in removing barriers to content. All videos we provide should have Closed caption as an option.

Enabling ASR captioning at the folder level is free at no additional cost to us
It improves basic accessibility support for those who are have or temporary or permanent hearing impairment.
It saves time for creating basic captions.

Important: Auto-captioning is only 80-90% accurate and not guaranteed to meet full ADA compliance so it is important to review and correct captioning errors for things such as proper names and medical terminology. This must be done for each video individually.