Teaching · Special Education

Captions, transcript, description, then share.

Say what kind of media it is and mark nine checks. The checklist works out which ones this recording needs, lists what is missing and gives the export settings.

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Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Special Education toolkit, $99 for 100 items.

The export check

One check per recording. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Special Education$5 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
The checks this media needs, what is done and what is missing with its WCAG criterion, export formats and notes.
Who it is for
Teachers, instructional designers, media specialists and special education teachers who record and share media.
Format
Browser checklist. One saved check per recording; printed with the summary or as a blank checklist; CSV across recordings; export and import a file.
Access
$5 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Special Education toolkit ($99) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Special Education space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
the picture, the words and the page
Drawn for this page. A recording is ready to share when it can be heard, read and followed without the picture.

How to use it

  1. Start a check with a code for the recording.
  2. Choose the kind of media and whether the visuals carry information.
  3. Mark each check; use does not apply only when it truly does not.
  4. Fix what is missing, starting with captions.
  5. Export with the formats the summary gives and post the transcript under the player.

Check a recording

The rules used

What applies to what

Prerecorded video with sound needs captions (WCAG 1.2.2) and, where the picture carries information the narration does not, audio description (1.2.5, AA) or at Level A a full text alternative (1.2.3). Audio-only and video-only media need a text alternative (1.2.1).

Automatic captions

They are a start, not a finish. Subject words, names and speaker changes need a person to fix them.

What this is not

A review of live captioning for meetings or class streams, which has its own criteria.

Sources

  1. W3C (2023). Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2: guideline 1.2 Time-based Media, and criteria 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 2.1.1 and 2.3.1.
  2. W3C Web Accessibility Initiative, Making Audio and Video Media Accessible (captions, transcripts, description).
  3. Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP), Captioning Key and Description Key guidelines.
  4. U.S. Department of Justice (2024). ADA Title II web and mobile accessibility rule, 28 CFR part 35, subpart H.

The example recording is made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.