Facebook announced Tuesday that publishers of Facebook Live videos can now add closed captions in order to make those videos more accessible to users who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. (Adweek)
Not all Live videos will have closed captions. But if publishers deploy captions and if Facebook users turn them on, users will automatically see closed captions on Live broadcasts, Facebook’s director of accessibility Jeffrey Wieland said. Facebook videos that are not livestreamed already had this capability, but only if the publishers offer captions. (USA Today)
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