Captions on YouTube has been such an important topic lately, mostly because they are so bad. In 2009, YouTube released their automatic captioning feature for videos using voice recognition algorithm, but the text is often inaccurate. While YouTube does let users upload their own captions, it can be time consuming, and most users don’t do it. However, with encouragement from the Deaf/Hard of Hearing community, and people like Rikki, there are some YouTubers who are leading this change. Here’s a list of some YouTubers I’ve found who caption their videos:
Tyler is probably the biggest star out there who captions his videos- and I praise him for it! He vlogs about his life, his book and random things! He made a video asking others to caption too!
I love Lilly, she’s funny- she talks about absolutely everything from types of people at parties to general everyday problems! When she dresses up as her parents it’s brilliant! I also appreciate her captioning for her Deaf/HOH fans.
He’s a deaf musician who sings, signs and produces music through feeling vibrations. It’s very inspirational- and he puts lyrics on his music videos!
There are more than 360 million people worldwide have disabling hearing loss in the world, according to the World Health Organization, and I bet lots of them want to watch YouTube. (YouTube has over a billion users — almost one-third of all people on the Internet.) Help make YouTube videos more accessible! I invite you to help me to encourage YouTube content creators to caption their videos! Closed captioning is really easy to do, just follow this guide.
These YouTubers also caption their videos:
If you know any more captioned YouTubers, let me know in the comments below!
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