Twitter is testing a CC button for captions on videos
by Kim Lyons from The Verge - All Posts on (#5YEXP)
Twitter is testing a CC button for closed captions on videos. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Twitter said on Friday it's testing a new CC" button to turn captions on and off on videos with captions available. The feature is rolling out to some users on iOS and will be coming soon" to Android, the company says.
As shown in a video tweeted by Twitter's Support account, the button appears in the upper-right corner of a video attached to a tweet.
Video captions or no captions, it's now easier to choose for some of you on iOS, and soon on Android.
- Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) April 22, 2022
On videos that have captions available, we're testing the option to turn captions off/on with a new CC" button. pic.twitter.com/Q2Q2Wmr78U
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