Our evidence supports five best practices and key takeaways:
Because most scientific presentations are delivered using either Microsoft PowerPoint or Google Slides presentation software, we focus our performance assessment on the built-in auto-captioning provided by these platforms.
This article outlines different strategies for providing effective captions using widely available captioning tools and presents results of our performance assessment of artificial intelligence (AI)–based auto-captioning of jargon-rich geological passages. However, presenters should make their talks accessible without requiring participants to request captions each time.
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Why then don’t we regularly caption geoscience presentations? Our resistance may be due to such factors as not knowing or believing that captioning is needed, not knowing how to use these tools, and/or believing that the resulting captioning will be inadequate. Furthermore, for remote presentations, audio may not be accessible in all shared workspaces.Ī myriad of tools and platforms can provide captioning for live presentations. Studies have shown that subtitles or captions improve both English language skills and accessibility of science for deaf and hard of hearing participants. Increasing the accessibility of presentations and improving inclusivity of discussions provide a path toward increasing diversity within the sciences. During English-spoken scientific presentations, not-yet-fluent English speakers, people who are deaf or hard of hearing, and people who have auditory processing disorder develop listening fatigue that can inhibit their understanding and limit their participation in discussions. A study of BBC television viewers reported that 80% of caption users are not deaf or hard of hearing. Presentations that have captions are better understood, whether they are in-person or remote.Ĭaptions make verbal material more accessible to a wider variety of people.
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