Accessibility in the Workplace
Subtitle: It’s the least you could do.
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The company produced a podcast. All nine episodes were dropped at the same time. And transcripts were published on the web page at the same time.
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The department that loves, loves, loves Zoom meetings now uses Google Meet when the meeting includes my deaf/HoH colleague. Zoom does not have first-party captioning. Zoom does not appear to have any reasonable options for captioning. Google Meet has real-time captioning. The captions are pretty OK.
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We’re launching a new feature for one of our products, and this feature includes a video. Recently someone asked, “How do I add captions to the video?” This is an interesting question because it combines both an expectation that captions should be added as well as a lack of instructions on the details of how to do it. (Don’t ask about captions for the videos related to the older products.)