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HTML Accessibility Introduction Mobility and Cognition

Posted by Ivan Kusakovic
Ivan Kusakovic
12,197 Points

Captions on Treehouse

Can anyone from Treehouse explain how captions on Treehouse works? Does that some dedicated man works, typing all text or it's a recognition software like YouTube have.

Thanks in advance!

3 Answers

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

Captions can be added to a video as a sort of "text" track. So some poor soul will have to look through the video, write out a transcript, and then put this text in a special kind of a file called VTT, which is how HTML5 recognises that it needs to display captions.

Nick Pettit's course on HTML Video will be able to tell you more. :)

Ivan Kusakovic
Ivan Kusakovic
12,197 Points
Ivan Kusakovic
Ivan Kusakovic
12,197 Points

I think that's not translated automatically because is all perfectly correct. On YouTube when something is automatically translated there a bunch of errors. So, pour soul, if you are reading this, you should know that I am very thankful for translating videos :) You deserve a good salery! :)

Ivan Kusakovic
Ivan Kusakovic
12,197 Points
Ivan Kusakovic
Ivan Kusakovic
12,197 Points

I listened to the video. I just asked if there is a poor soul or it's automatically translated on Treehouse :)

Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

It's a poor soul I'm afraid. Someone does need to watch and take notes from the video, even if it's only just to figure out when captions appear on the video :)