Vidukon, 30 May to 1 June 2025, (Bristol & Online)

Accessibility is something we’re working to improve at VidUKon. One way we’d like to do that is by providing subtitles for as many of the vids streaming on Conline as possible at this year’s virtual con.

If you’ve submitted a vid to the con, or you have a vid in a curated show, please consider adding subtitles to your streaming version if you don’t already have them.

To get you started, here’s a helpful guide to making subtitles using a program called DivXLand Media Subtitler, which also contains advice on how to upload your subtitles to YouTube or Vimeo, the two streaming sites that are usable with Conline. YouTube also has an easy-to-use inbuilt subtitling tool that you may prefer! If you use something different for your own subtitles or have other tips and tricks to share, feel free to do so in the comments of this post.

Once you’ve created subtitles for your vid, consider downloading them (either directly from YouTube or using a site like DownSub) and adding them to your upload when you share your video file with concom, so that we can include them in the con DVD/ USB drive.

We’d also like to encourage you to provide details on potential physical triggers in your vid! Physical triggers must be warned for either way, but often it is helpful for people who are affected by them to have some details about what to expect, and where. If you struggle to determine what might count as a physical trigger, the following resources might help:

Twitter thread by Emrys about identifying photosensitivity triggers

Epilepsy alert extension for Chrome

If you have any other resources or tips to share, we encourage you to do so in the comments.

Please also remember that we require the following mandatory warnings for vidshows and vid submissions:

+ Contains graphic violence
+ Contains sexual violence
+ Contains physical triggers

You can add warnings and content notes to your vid as tags in the vid submission form. Feel free to create tags that are as long or short as you need them to be to convey all details you want to convey.