Twitter brings its closed caption toggle to Android and iOS

Twitter is enabling you to turn closed captions on or off on your cell phone. The social network has begun carrying out a closed caption toggle to everybody on Android and iOS, several months after it began testing the feature. Insofar as a video posted on the platform has accessible captions, you’ll see a CC button at its top right portion — essentially tap it to switch captions off or on.

Twitter has declared that a button to flip inscriptions for its video player is presently accessible for everybody on iOS and Android. The button, which appears in the upper right corner of the video assuming it has subtitles accessible, allows you to pick whether you need to see written descriptions. Twitter began testing this feature in April, however it was simply accessible to a set number of iPhone clients.

It’s an incredible expansion for accessibility purposes, seeing as it permits you to show inscriptions at whatever point you need. Before, you’ll just see the CC button on the web and for captions on portable assuming your sound is switched off. Further, subtitles consequently vanish when you grow a video, since doing so empowers sound playback. A couple of years prior, you even needed to go to openness settings to turn on shut inscribing if you have any desire to see captions for your videos by any means. All things considered, the feature has a constraint: The button will possibly appear for a video in the event that a subtitle has been accommodated it.

Twitter presented automatically generated captions for videos back in December, which is irrelevant to this specific feature. They will, nonetheless, just appear on muted videos except if you pick the choice to see them consistently through the site’s availability settings page. It’s basically impossible to report inaccurate automated captions right now.