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.
Product manager Supratik Lahiri and director of accessibility Jeffrey Wieland said in a Newsroom post that daily watch time for Facebook Live videos has quadrupled over the past year, adding that one out of every five videos on the social network is a Live video.
Users must have their captioning settings turned on in order to automatically see closed captions.
Lahiri provided more details for publishers in a Facebook Media blog post:
With this update, publishers using the Live API (application-programming interface) can now add CEA-608 standard closed captions to Facebook Live broadcasts, opening up those videos to audiences who are deaf or hard-of-hearing.
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