The Subtitles feature will automatically generate subtitles for your videos, making it a fast and effective way to increase viewers engagement. These videos may have potential to engage a passive user watching the video on mute, however social media platforms are improving their features to automatically identify users watching without sound and turn on closed captions. For the accessibility users, it can conflict with their closed caption settings. This will commonly have a black or coloured panel with subtitles appearing in a larger font. This is a much slower method adding subtitles and we do not recommend this approach as it can impact the viewer experience and accessibility. This is when the video file has the subtitles 'baked' into the video footage rather than a separate file, meaning they cannot be turned off by viewers.
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Overlay text encoded within the video file Solution: You could consider adding a quick caption at the start of your video asking viewers to turn on their closed captions.Ĭlosed captions are our recommended method of adding subtitles to your videos and may help meet your accessibility requirements (please check your local accessibility policies as they may vary.) 2.People who watch your video with sound turned on will need to turn on captions to see them.
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It’s currently not possible to set this to be turned on by default when publishing your video to these platforms. YouTube & LinkedIn - Video viewers need to actively select to turn on closed captions to see the subtitles.