How to share a video

Sharing gives you a public page where anyone can watch your video with its descriptions — no account, no download, and no export needed. Descriptions are delivered live rather than baked in, so each viewer chooses how they receive them.

Sharing is available for video projects.

Turn on sharing

1. Open the project and expand the project settings below the player.
2. In the Share section, turn on Anyone with the link can watch.
3. Copy the Share link.

The page is public but unlisted: it asks search engines not to index it and it isn’t listed anywhere in the app. It is not access-controlled, though — anyone the link reaches can watch it and pass it on.

Embed the player in your own site

Copy the Embed code from the same section and paste it into your page. It’s a plain iframe you can resize:

<iframe
  src="https://studio.binclusive.io/en/embed/YOUR-TOKEN"
  width="100%"
  height="640"
  style="border:0"
  allow="autoplay; fullscreen"
  title="Your video title — video with audio descriptions"
></iframe>

Replace the title with something that names the video. A screen reader announces this when the user reaches the frame, and “Share” tells them nothing.

If your site sets a strict frame-src content security policy, allow this origin or the player will be blocked.

Turn off sharing

Select Turn off sharing, then confirm.

The link stops working immediately. Turning sharing back on creates a different link — the old one can’t be restored, so replace it anywhere you published it.

Check the page before you circulate the link

1. Open the link in a private or signed-out browser window.
2. Move the Description Filter through the levels your audience is likely to use.
3. Confirm the video plays, and that the description modes and captions you expect are offered.

The trap to check for: Narrated audio is offered only when every description visible at the current filter level has rendered audio. Widening the filter toward All can expose an unrendered line and make the option disappear. If your audience should have recorded narration at every level, prepare the narration preview first — see Tune the narration.

If your source is a YouTube link, test the page as well. Recorded narration is never offered, and playback fails outright if the video’s owner has disabled embedding or taken the video down — the player says so rather than showing a black frame.

What your viewers get

Viewers receive your descriptions as live data, not as a fixed soundtrack. They set their own detail level and choose how descriptions are delivered: read by their screen reader, spoken by their device, or played as recorded narration. See Shared player controls for the full list.

The descriptions viewers hear are the ones currently saved on the project. Edit a line and the shared page reflects it — there’s nothing to re-publish. Note that editing a line’s wording leaves its recorded narration out of date until you re-render it.

Need a fixed, downloadable file instead? See Export a video. Sharing doesn’t consume or replace an export, so you can do both.

See also

• Shared player controls — everything your viewers can change.
• How to tune the narration — choose the recorded voice offered when viewers select Narrated audio.
• About narration placement — why a link leaves these choices to the viewer and a file can’t.