#  ✎ Technique: Writing captions 

 



Captions allow people who can't hear a video's soundtrack to have access to a text version of the information provided in the audio.

If you decide to caption your own video content rather than outsource this job to a captioning service, make sure the captions provide an accurate and meaningful alternative to the audio. In particular, when writing captions for audio content in a video, make sure all the spoken content is available in captions, as well as indications of speaker switching (using ">> SPEAKER NAME:") and descriptions of significant non-verbal sounds (setting them off in square brackets, such as "\[BUTTON CLICK\]").

## Video: Writing closed captions



 



 

 

 



 

 

 

 



 

 See also:- [ Alternatives ](/accessibility-topics/alternatives)
- [ Captions ](/accessibility-topics/captions)
- [ Video ](/accessibility-topics/video)
- [ Provide captions and descriptions of video ✎ ](/content/provide-captions-and-descriptions-video)
- [ Perceivable ](/principles/perceivable)
- [ Deaf ](/disabilities/deaf)
- [ Hard of hearing ](/disabilities/hard-hearing)
- [ Techniques ](/page-categories/techniques)