Auto-Generated Captions

Captions automatically created by speech recognition technology without human review or editing. Video platforms like YouTube and TikTok offer auto-generated captions as a default accessibility feature. While they improve baseline accessibility, auto-generated captions often contain errors—particularly with technical terminology, proper nouns, accented speech, and overlapping audio—that can be distracting or misleading. For viewers with ADHD, caption errors are especially problematic because hyperfocus on errors can derail attention from the actual content.