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How faculty can request caption editing for course videos in Panopto and Zoom. Explains that Bowdoin's caption editors correct the automatic (ASR) captions directly in Panopto within 48 hours after a request is submitted, and why captions benefit all students. Applies to faculty who use video in their courses.

Bowdoin's captioning policy (effective July 1, 2020) and the tools for meeting it: video should be captioned to at least 99% accuracy and audio-only content should have a transcript. Covers editing YouTube auto-captions, captioning Panopto videos (contact Paul Benham), professional captioning through Rev (contact Juli Haugen, ~5 business days), and transcribing Zoom cloud recordings. For Bowdoin website editors and content publishers.

How to make Bowdoin Instagram content accessible: add your own alternative text on new posts (Advanced Settings > Accessibility > Write Alt Text) and on existing posts (the three-dot menu > Add Alt Text), since Instagram's automatic alt-text is not always accurate; and caption videos, remembering that Instagram supports only open (burned-in) captions. Lists captioning software by platform and links the DCMP Captioning Key. For Bowdoin staff managing Instagram accounts.

Best practices for making Bowdoin social media posts accessible: add alternative text to images, caption videos, place hashtags and mentions at the end of a post and write multi-word hashtags in CamelCase (#BowdoinCollege), use meaningful link text, use emojis sparingly because screen readers read each one aloud, and keep good color contrast. For Bowdoin staff and departments managing social media accounts.

How to turn on and use live captions (live transcription) in Zoom. Covers enabling auto-transcription as a host, viewing subtitles and the full transcript as a participant, saving a transcript, adjusting caption text size, and tips for better accuracy. Applies to all Bowdoin faculty, staff, and students using Zoom.

How Panopto automatically captions uploaded videos, how to turn captions on while watching, how to set a folder's captioning language before uploading, and how video owners can edit captions for accuracy. Applies to all Bowdoin students, faculty, and staff using Panopto.

Instructions for downloading a plain text transcript from a Panopto video using the interactive viewer, the embedded viewer, or video settings. Applies to all Bowdoin users with access to a captioned Panopto video.

Live Captions in Windows is a built-in accessibility feature that automatically transcribes spoken audio into text in real time on the screen. Captions show on top of an application including videos, listening to podcasts or to caption a presenters voice alone or over a slide presentation.