Accessibility and Live Stream Captioning

How to Use Live Captioning on Your Device

Inclusivity and accessibility are critical to Whatnot’s ethos and mission as a company. We are deeply committed to fostering an inclusive community and App, which means building products and tools that provide accessibility support natively or function with accessibility tools already available on your device or browser. Below, please find information on ways you can enable Live Captioning in Whatnot streams, whether you access the app Whatnot from an iOS or Android mobile device, or a Mac or PC using a web browser.

If you access Whatnot from your mobile device:

iOS: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/live-captions-beta-iphe0990f7bb/ios

Android: https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/9350862?hl=en

If you access Whatnot from your computer browser:

Mac: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/use-live-captions-mchldd11f4fd/13.0/mac/13.0

PC (Windows 11, v. 22H2 or later): https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-live-captions-to-better-understand-audio-b52da59c-14b8-4031-aeeb-f6a47e6055df

In addition to these options, your browser (for example, Chrome) may have live captioning functionality.