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From: Morin, Gary (NIH/OD) [E]
Date: Apr 13, 2011 1:06PM

Hi, John/Jeb - in the following comment, are you suggesting closed captioning as opposed to open captioning or as opposed to not captioning? Are Open Captions not text searchable?

* One last comment. I would recommend everyone *close caption* all of their videos that are going to be posted on line. The accessibility issues are obviously the primary reason, but there is an added value - closed caption files are searchable. By adding the captioning to your videos, you make the content accessible and usable to a very wide audience including Google bots.


Gary M.