Captions are the text equivalent of the spoken word. Captioning your YouTube videos not only makes your videos accessible to people who are hard of hearing but it also enables viewers who do not have English as their first language to better understand the content of your video. Let us also not forget the office workers who wile away time slouching at their office desks viewing videos in silent mode yet looking ever so busy.

Things have been quiet on my blog over the past few weeks as I have been extremely busy at work and one of the projects the web team here have been working on is the launch of the YouTube channel for London South Bank University (LSBU).