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Google announced on Google Blog three major innovations for the sub-time captioning of videos on YouTube:

1. by activating the automatic captioning when viewing a video on YouTube, subtitles appear on the video (they are created in real time using the technology of speech recognition to Google)
2. You can choose to translate in real time in the 51 languages currently supported by Google's translation technology,
3. for each of your videos, you can send (via your YouTube account) a text file transcript text without worry to indicate the synchronization time as the technology Google will take care of sync with the video to display on your video subtitles.

This announcement is not only a huge step for the accessibility of videos to deaf and hard of hearing but also more generally for universal access to knowledge for all because everyone will be able to read real-time language subtitles for all YouTube videos.

These innovations are classified in accessibility 2.0 (real-time access to data stream) and this is further evidence that Web accessibility has benefits for all.