YouTube: How to see your videos transcript as well as force closed captioning to be played for users

So... this post falls under the "Why didn't I do this before?" as well as "Better late than never!" categories. Adding closed captioning to your videos has numerous benefits including:

• makes your post available to more users
• Captions let viewers watch your video in more places
• According to a study by the United Kingdom’s Ofcom, 80% of people who watch video with closed captions on are not deaf or hard of hearing. One major reason why people use captions is due to their environment.
• Boosts views as well

If you would like to have your YouTube videos to include closed captioning here are the steps:

• enter into your video manager and select Subtitles/CC
• set your language
• select language (English in my example)
• select Edit
• check the transcript (edit where necessary)
• publish edits
• go back to Info / Settings
• in the tags field enter in the proper tags to go along with your video to make it available as well as one major tip
• yt:cc=on this will force closed captioning for all users when they select your video

Embedded below is a 2 minute and 3 second YouTube tutorial (with captions)!

Take care,

Brad