Twitter is giving you the power to turn closed captioning on or off on your mobile device. A few months after it started testing the feature, the social network has started toggling a closed caption for everyone on Android and iOS. As long as a video posted to the platform has subtitles available, you’ll see a CC button in the top right of it just tap it to turn subtitles off or on.
This is a great addition for accessibility purposes, as it allows you to show captions whenever you want. In the past, you’d see the CC button on the web and for subtitles on mobile only when your sound is turned off. In addition, captions automatically disappear when you expand a video, as voice playback is enabled by doing so. A few years ago, you also had to Go to Accessibility Settings To turn on closed captioning if you want to see subtitles for your video at all. That said, the feature has a limitation: the button will only appear for a video if a caption has been provided for it.
The choice is yours now: Closed Caption Toggle is now available to everyone on iOS and Android!
Tap the “CC” button on a video with an available caption to turn on/off captions. https://t.co/GceKv68wvi
Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) 23 June 2022
According to a spokesperson, Twitter introduced automatically generated captions for videos in December, which are not related to this particular feature. ledge, However, they will only appear on muted videos unless you choose to watch them all the time through the website’s accessibility settings page. There is no way to report incorrect automatic captions at this time.
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