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Add closed captions to every video

20-30 min per video, more if manually correctingImpact: highEffort: medium

Closed captions on every video make your content genuinely accessible to viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing, and provide YouTube's algorithm with real, accurate text of your spoken content.

Captions are both a genuine accessibility requirement and additional real text signal for YouTube's understanding of your content, distinct from the description.

How to do it

  1. 1
    Enable auto-captions as a starting point
    YouTube's real automatic captioning as a first pass.
  2. 2
    Review and correct genuine errors
    Auto-captions have real accuracy limitations — manual review improves genuine quality.

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How you will know it is done

Every video has genuine, accurate closed captions.

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