Captions

Considering accessibility while presenting and speaking can help everyone access the information or messages your are trying to convey. This article touches on best practices for presenting and speaking.

This article identifies the differences between captions, transcripts, and audio descriptions. In addition, there are resources embedded in this article to guide faculty, staff and students on how they can implement captions, transcripts or audio descriptions into their media using an array of applications that are available to Oliners. Note that some resources will link to external articles or to other articles available through the Olin Accessibility Hub.

Typed text is more legible for those with cognitive or visual difficulties including dyslexia, dysgraphia, low vision, color blindness, and more. Variations in handwriting style, skewed text, writing that is too small or too big, block vs. cursive writing, and more can make handwritten text and math difficult to decipher. As such, it is highly recommended to work with typed text and equations over handwritten math.