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Captions play a vital role in ensuring everyone can fully engage with media content, and we鈥檙e committed to making captioning a campus-wide priority.

Captions Benefit Everyone

There is a growing understanding that captions benefit everyone. Captions increase comprehension, retention and engagement of video content and there are . Captions were originally developed as a tool for making video content accessible for people with disabilities, but there are many reasons why someone might turn captions on.

Why you might turn on captions

The environment you are in is noisy or doesn鈥檛 allow audio to be played
The audio is low quality or hard to understand
The content is spoken in a language that you are still learning

In 2016, Oregon State University conducted a survey on
and found:

70% of students without hearing disabilities used captions at least some of the time
66% of English as a Second Language (ESL) students found captions "very" or "extremely" helpful
75% of students used captions as a learning aid
52% said captions helped improve comprehension
The most common reasons why students used captions were to help them focus, retain information and overcome poor audio

Campaign Goals

To increase a sense of belonging on campus
To enhance learning experiences
To promote faculty involvement in learning this accessibility tool as a best practice

Caption Your Content

Whenever you are showing audiovisual content on campus, turn on the captions. If you have content that isn鈥檛 captioned, here are a few things you can do.

Join the Pilot: If you are a Hope faculty member using audiovisual content in your course design, we would love to partner with you to enhance the content with captions. Please complete the for more information.
Use MacWhisper: Try MacWhisper (an AI powered caption generator) that is installed on the computers in the Digital Media Lab in the library. Instructions can be found at the Digital Media Lab webpage.
Save Videos in Google Drive: As of spring 2024, all video content updated to your Google Drive associated with your 麻豆传媒官网 account will get automatically generated captions. They are not perfect but they can be very helpful. Any content uploaded prior to 2024 can be re-uploaded to generate captions.

Use Live Captioning

Do you give presentations or host events? Consider using live captions.

Live Captions on Windows: Use Live Captions on Windows. The computer keyboard shortcut is Window Key + Control + L.
Third Party Human Captions: If you are hosting an event and you have a request to provide realtime captions as an accommodation, please reach out to captions@hope.edu to learn more. In general, we need at least six weeks in notice.

Interested in the Captions Campaign?

Reach out to captions@hope.edu.

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