Adding Captions to your stream

Adding captions to your stream is as easy as 1, 2, 3.

1. Launch WebCaptioner
2. Add a Browser Source to OBS
3. Resize and position your captions as per best practices

When adding captions via Webcaptioner, please ensure that you are utilizing the Google Chrome web browser. This browser is the most effective and supported browser for the Webcaptioner platform. To add captions for your stream, you can use this step-by-step guide or the quick video tutorial courtesy of Web Captioner located in the video below.

• Launch Google Chrome and disable Hardware acceleration
  • Settings >> Advanced >> Hardware Acceleration toggle
• Navigate to https://webcaptioner.com
• Click the “Start Captioning” button on the main page.
• In the new screen click the “Start Captioning” button in the lower right of the window, and resize the window to appear like you would expect a closed caption window to appear (as seen in the image below)
• DO NOT MINIMIZE OR CLOSE THE WEBCAPTIONER WINDOW

• Inside OBS/SLOBS/XSplit you will need to add a new Window Capture.
• Define your new Window Capture Source as the Google Chrome window that you are using to caption.
• Once the source has been added, you will need to crop the browser features from the window. You can do this by holding down the ALT key and dragging from the corners. This will crop your caption window to an appropriate size.
• Once you have completed cropping the caption window, you will want to position it in the lower right as per the best practices to ensure ease-of-use by Deaf and Hard of Hearing viewers. This will ensure that they are able to view the captions and chat with ease.