This page is intended for any Lower Columbia College faculty or staff that intend to post videos online, whether on our Public website or Internal website, any other institutional websites, our official YouTube, Vimeo, or social media, Canvas, ctcLink, etc. If you have not already, please familiarize yourself with the General Content Accessibility Guidelines, which are prerequisite to the guidelines below.
Be Succint
Videos should be as succint as possible and should stick to the point. If you have trouble recording a live video without rambling, try using a script. Editing out unnecessary parts of a video can also be useful to make sure only important information makes the final cut.
Use Landmarks/Chapters for Longer Videos
Software like Panopto and YouTube allow you to label sections of your videos. Marking when a new topic begins in this way is very helpful to people who struggle with focus, as well as for people who may need to review a section multiple times. Make use of these tools to help your viewers!
Captions
All videos should have accurate captions to be fully accessible. Video captions are helpful to a wide range of people including deaf or hearing-impaired people and those with cognitive disabilities.
- Captions must at least be 99% accurate to be accessible.
- Captions should not include more than 180 words per minute.
- Captions should stay on the screen for at least 2 seconds.
Panopto is by far the best captioning tool we have access to at LCC. eLearning has prepared an excellent guide to captioning in Panopto. This guide will show you how to use Panopto's automatic captions so you won't have to start from scratch, and how to manually edit those captions for accuracy. Captions can then be downloaded from Panopto if you intend to upload the video elsewhere (e.g. YouTube, Vimeo, etc.).