Council going to closed captions

LEAMINGTON – The Municipality of Leamington is improving the accessibility of Council meetings with the addition of closed captioning technology to live streams of meetings.

Automated closed captioning for streaming media is a method of displaying text of spoken content within a video. This service improves accessibility for audiences with impaired hearing.

When a viewer watches a live stream of the Council meeting, the text will automatically appear on the screen below the video.

Closed captioning is captured through artificial intelligence, so there may be inaccurate spellings or interpretations of words, depending on the speaker’s speed, accent and word pronunciation.

To view live Council meeting webcasts, visit leamington.ca/live