Starter Kit
Accessible Publishing Kit
Eight steps, in order, from raw auto-captions to a publish that genuinely works for deaf, hard-of-hearing, blind, and low-vision audiences. Every step links straight to the free tool or guide you need at that exact point. No login, no paywall.
Publishing Accessible Video: A Practical Compliance-Era ChecklistGuide
The umbrella view: what a genuinely accessible publish includes, why regulation like the European Accessibility Act is making this table stakes, and the order to tackle it in. Start here to see the whole map.
Beyond Auto-Captions: Caption Quality, Styling, and ReadabilityGuide
Auto-captions are a starting point, not a deliverable. What actually makes captions readable (accuracy, timing, line breaks, speaker labels, sound cues) and the conventions professionals check against.
SRT Caption Editor & ConverterTool
Load your exported SRT or VTT and fix what the guide taught you to see: mistranscriptions, bad timings, clumsy line breaks. Converts between formats, entirely in the browser.
Caption Readability CheckerTool
Run the corrected file against readability guidelines (reading speed, line length, duration, gaps, and overlaps) with adjustable thresholds and a per-cue report of what to fix.
Transcripts: The Accessibility Feature That's Also an SEO StrategyGuide
The lowest-effort, highest-reach accessibility upgrade after captions: publishing a proper transcript, formatting it for humans, and letting search engines index every word you said.
Audio Description for Video: What It Is and How to Write ItGuide
Captions serve viewers who can't hear. Audio description serves viewers who can't see. What AD actually is, when it matters, and how to write and record it without a broadcast budget.
Color Blindness SimulatorTool
Upload a thumbnail or graphic and see it as viewers with the major color-vision deficiencies do, before you publish a design whose meaning lives entirely in a red/green distinction.
Accessible Podcasting: Transcripts, Show Notes, and PlayersGuide
Extend the same thinking to audio-only work: podcast transcripts, genuinely useful show notes, and choosing players and hosts that don't lock listeners out.
Get This Kit, and All 7 Others, as One PDF
Download the full Creator Starter Kit Pack: all 8 kits, every step and link, in one printable file you can work through offline.
Designing the visuals too?
Thumbnails, lower thirds, and channel art have their own accessibility layer: contrast ratios, color-independence, and readable type. The Accessible Thumbnails and Graphics guide covers the design side end to end.
Other starter kits
Starting a podcast from scratch? Try the Podcast Starter Kit. Building a YouTube channel? Try the YouTube Creator Kit. Setting up a recording space first? Try the Home Studio Kit. Mixing a raw recording? Try the Audio Post-Production Kit. Going live instead? Try the Livestream Starter Kit. Cutting for short-form? Try the Short-Form Video Kit. Getting into voice work? Try the Voice-Over Artist Kit.