Choose the accessibility task first
A transcript provides a separate text window, while captions appear with the playing picture. Someone following dialogue in real time and someone reviewing text beside a documentary may need different presentations. Establish the task before changing caption styles on a television.
For example, a student may want to follow the text while pausing to take notes. A family watching across a room may need captions large enough to read on the television instead. Neither use should be treated as the only meaning of accessible text. Ask which presentation meets the viewer’s actual need.
Open the supported transcript surface
The official help places the transcript control in the Kanopy website player. It describes a window that advances with playback and also allows manual scrolling. It does not establish that every television application has that same panel.
Inspect the selected film’s available controls rather than assuming every title includes every accessibility asset. A caption icon on the title page signals the relevant text option, but the actual track and web tools should be checked for that item. This guide does not claim that every film has a complete transcript or that an automated transcription is error-free.
Keep styling and availability separate
Kanopy’s help provides website subtitle styles and a Samsung Caption Font route, while its broader accessibility guidance refers other platforms to device caption settings. Those style controls answer how available captions look; they do not create a missing transcript asset.
If you need assistance, report the film, platform and which text control is missing or unusable. A website transcript that fails to follow playback is different from a TV app that never offers transcripts. No film was played, transcript copied or device setting changed in this review. The contribution is a format-and-surface decision that avoids treating all caption, subtitle and transcript functions as identical.
Questions about this guide
Should every Kanopy TV app have a transcript panel?
The checked help documents transcripts as website-only.
Will changing caption font create a transcript?
No. Styling available captions and providing a transcript are different functions.