Academic Innovation recognizes the time and effort that faculty need to design and implement high-quality online courses and ensure digital accessibility, including creating captions for multimedia.
Therefore, in our commitment to ensuring access for our digital learners, a Captioning Support Team is available to assist UTSA faculty with creating accessible multimedia.
The process is simple. Any UTSA faculty member may request captions. Priority will be given to high-impact course content that can be reused or content that has difficult/technical jargon that is not easily recognized in automated captions.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 defines captions as, “synchronized visual and/or text alternative for both speech and non-speech audio information needed to understand the media content.”
Captions will be requested through a 3rd party captioning vendor (Rev) in conjunction with Panopto or completed by our student caption editors no cost to you or your department.
No, however, you will be asked to move your videos to UTSA Panopto if your request is approved.
If your request has been approved we will contact you with further instructions. Once captioning has been requested by the Digital Accessibility Team there is a 10 business day turnaround time for captioning to be completed.