Closed captions or CC are popular and are useful for all. With closed captions available in videos, it provides us the extra option of turning it on or off. Closed captions were initially designed to help people having hearing difficulties. Later, in the US, there came the law under section 504 where all educational videos must be captioned to help people with disabilities. After this law was introduced, all educational institutions right from kindergarten to universities had to have captions for the educational video contents. Closed captioning allows all students to be benefited and not just a few. People usually get confused with captions and subtitles as they are the same but there is a difference among them. Subtitles are just plain text whereas closed captions contain all the minor details in the video and non-speech information such as the identity of speakers, their manner of speaking, significant music, sound effects and other background noises.
Teaching a group of students with disabilities is not an easy job, they must make sure that all the students have gained knowledge about the topic. Teachers use various techniques to give their best to these students.
Conclusion
Closed captions for students with disabilities is inevitable, specially, because it is mandatory by law. Hence, for any video content that you create, it is best advised that you get in touch with a transcriptions and captioning service provider such as Visual Subtitling who provides accurate, cost-effective and quick captioning services.