An Exploration of Captioning Practices and Challenges of Individual Content Creators on YouTube for People with Hearing Impairments

Franklin Mingzhe LI, Cheng LU, Zhicong LU, Patrick CARRINGTON, Khai N. TRUONG

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Abstract

Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) audiences have long complained about caption qualities for many online videos created by individual content creators on video-sharing platforms (e.g., YouTube). However, there lack explorations of practices, challenges, and perceptions of online video captions from the perspectives of both individual content creators and DHH audiences. In this work, we first explore DHH audiences' feedback on and reactions to YouTube video captions through interviews with 13 DHH individuals, and uncover DHH audiences' experiences, challenges, and perceptions on watching videos created by individual content creators (e.g., manually added caption tags could create additional confidence and trust in caption qualities for DHH audiences). We then discover individual content creators' practices, challenges, and perceptions on captioning their videos (e.g., back-captioning problems) by conducting a YouTube video analysis with 189 captioning-related YouTube videos, followed by a survey with 62 individual content creators. Overall, our findings provide an in-depth understanding of captions generated by individual content creators and bridge the knowledge gap mutually between content creators and DHH audiences on captions.
Original languageEnglish
Article number75
JournalProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Volume6
Issue numberCSCW1
Online published7 Apr 2022
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2022

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Research Keywords

  • accessibility
  • caption
  • content creators
  • deaf and hard-of-hearing
  • YouTube

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