Most videos posted on my departmental social media accounts use open captions rather than closed captions, see percentage breakdown, below. This means that captions are hard coded onto the video itself so that users do not have to choose to enable closed captions when viewing these videos.
The percentage of social media videos with open captions between 1 May 2022 and 30 April 2023 is 90%, of which, 10% feature translations into Irish. Closed captions are included in 25% of videos posted on my department’s YouTube account from this period, while the remainder (75% of videos) use open captions, of which, 33% of feature translations into Irish.
As my department has mostly included open captioning for its videos posted on its social media accounts, the information requested by the deputy concerning a percentage of social media videos with
closed
captioning/subtitling and the percentage of same that feature translations into Irish or another language, which operate under the remit of my department is more appropriate to the state bodies concerned and is not held within my Department.
Accordingly, I have asked the agencies under my department’s remit to respond to you directly. If you do not hear from them within 10 working days, please advise my private office.
