Caption Technical Help

Follow the steps below to give Digital Accessibility Services (DAS) limited access to your YouTube channel. This will allow us to support you in managing your video captions. We will only make caption-related changes in your channel. Depending on how permissions are managed in your YouTube account, follow either the instructions for Standard Accounts or for Brand Accounts. 

Standard Account

  1. Go to https://studio.youtube.com. You must be logged into the Google account associated with your YouTube channel.
  2. Click on “Settings” in the lower-left corner:
    YouTube navigation menu with a red box around the settings menu item.
  3. Click on “Permissions”:
    YouTube navigation menu with red box around permissions.
  4. Click “Invite” in the upper-right corner:
    Red box around the invite button.(If you don’t have the Invite option, there will be a notice that “You’re currently managing channel permissions through a Brand account.” See the instructions for managing content in a Brand Account).
  5. Add “captions@usu.edu” with the role “Editor (limited)” and click “Done”.
    A dropdown menu with captions@usu.edu added under the email option and Editor (Limited) listed under access. A large circle is around the Done button.
  6. That’s it! We can now add caption files to your videos and make sure they are accessible and inclusive! 

Brand Account

  1. Go to https://myaccount.google.com/brandaccounts
  2. Under "Your Brand Accounts" select the channel you would like to give us access to. 
  3. Select “Manage Permissions”. It may ask you to verify your account.
    A red arrow pointing to the option "Manage Permissions".
  4. After verifying your account, click the “Share” icon in the upper right-hand corner.A red arrow pointing to a people icon in the upper right-hand corner.
  5. Add the email captions@usu.edu as a Manager and then select "Invite".
    A red arrow pointing to the captions@usu.edu email set to manager and another red arrow pointing to the option "Invite".
  6. That’s it! We can now add caption files to your videos and make sure they are accessible and inclusive! 
Note: Do not add captions@usu.edu as a Subtitle Editor. This feature only gives us the ability to access content that has already been captioned, so we are not able to caption legacy content.