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Twitter: Subtitles arrive on iOS and Android

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When Twitter introduced features like Voice Tweets , the company was widely criticized for not thinking about accessibility as both features initially had no captions. Twitter then later added captions for its audio feature, and continued with auto-generated captions for all videos.

Captions weren’t that accessible in the past, and at some point, the option was dropped in the accessibility settings, so you had to know the location in order to use it. Automatic subtitles are better than nothing , but they don’t replace proper transcription incorporated by the creators in the form of closed captions, which can be turned on and off. Twitter has now rolled out an update that will make subtitle activation. The activation / deactivation of subtitles is therefore ready to come for everyone on iOS and Android! Just press the “CC” button on the videos with subtitles available to turn everything on / off.

The CC button will only appear when a video has embedded subtitles and will not be used to activate auto-generated subtitles. This is likely to create a bit of confusion , with some thinking their app hasn’t been updated when watching a video without subtitles and others wondering why the button only appears intermittently.

It remains to be understood how the end users of the Twitter platform will take this news, and especially how they will use it during their sessions on the social network in their free time. However, the fact remains that it is a function already present on other famous social networks, and that it was therefore essential for Twitter to catch up and add this new function that could significantly improve the viewing of videos by users on the platform.

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  • Twitter closed captions button now available to all in iOS and Android apps (9to5Mac)

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