Through an official twitter of one of its accounts, Twitter has announced that it has released the CC button to all Android and iOS users of its app, which simplifies the activation or deactivation of subtitles on videos.
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The social network of the blue canary, fresh from the launch of the test relating to long Notes articles, has reported the start of another expected implementation, in this case with a view to accessibility.
It may happen that, while watching a video, you have hearing problems, you do not understand the speaker’s accent well, or you cannot turn up the volume or use the audio because in public and without headphones. In such cases, it is possible to use subtitles on Twitter. Last December, the platform added, with support for most languages, mobile and web side, support for automatically generated subtitles on newly uploaded videos that were not equipped with the subtitle file uploader.
Since last April, then, involving some iPhone users in the USA, always with a view to accessibility, the blue canary has started to test a function that makes it easier to activate and deactivate subtitles on those videos that, instead, had been added with a file of captions: obtained good feedback on this, the official Twitter Support account has communicated the making available to all users, on Android and iOS, of the button to activate and deactivate subtitles on videos.
To use this function, just tap the CC button that appears at the top right of the video player in the YouTube app: however, all the parameters that affect the “display or not of the captions“ remain valid. Specifically, to see them, you must have activated the subtitles in the accessibility settings of the Twitter app, have the audio off, and take into account that, when playing the video in full screen, the audio will be activated.
Finally, from leaker Alessandro Paluzzi we learn that Twitter is continuing to work on the function that will allow you to attach various types of media to a single tweet, including GIFs, photos and videos (even more videos together): the new evolutionary step of this function. still unpublished, it went through the creation of the introductory page of the function, a clear symptom of how not much is missing for its release.