Our goal at TikTok is to be accessible to all people, and we're committed to doing the work long-term.

A text-to-speech feature which converts text to voice.

A photosensitivity feature allows users to skip photosensitive content, which can be harmful for people with epilepsy.

A creator warning that notifies creators when they produce videos with effects that could trigger photosensitive epilepsy.

An animated thumbnail that replaces animated thumbnails with static images.

To date, our work on accessibility includes: Given the visual nature of our platform, we've designed a number of improvements, starting with features that help those with visual impairments. We are working with our community to spread the word and encourage all creators to use auto captions and other features that make content more accessible.Īuto captions builds on a number of features we've developed to make TikTok more accessible to everyone.

This feature will initially be available in American English and Japanese, with additional language support in the coming months.

Captions added by creators are part of the video content, and in the event a viewer wants to turn them off they can do so by opening the share panel, tapping the captions button, and setting captions to off.

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