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title: "YouTube Captioning"
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<span style="color: #172b4d">Students, faculty, and staff can add and edit captions in YouTube videos.</span>

To ensure that your YouTube videos are as accessible as possible, use the following best practices:

1. **Manually edit auto-generated captions.**
  1. YouTube automatically generates captions based on its best guess at interpreting the audio. Understandably, it is not 100% accurate. Using auto-generated captions saves time, and manually editing the captions ensures that users with disabilities have access to all the video’s information
2. **Edit the embed options.**
  1. Some features, like showing suggested videos when the video finishes, are difficult for assistive technology users to navigate.
3. **Edit the embed code.**
  1. A few minor adjustments, like changing the default video player to HTML5, make your video display as accessible as possible on your page.

> ℹ️ <span style="color: #333333">Additional information can be found on the </span>[IT accessibility website's YouTube captioning page](https://accessibility.its.uconn.edu/youtube/)<span style="color: #333333">.</span>

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