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Embed Title

What the embed is called for somebody who cannot see it.

Where to find it
Labelled Embed Title in the "Selected Component" section of the Modify drawer.
Offered by
The Embed component. Other components do not have this setting.
Per device
Yes — you can set one value for every screen, or separate values for phone, tablet, and desktop.

In plain English

A visitor using a screen reader does not get the video thumbnail or the map. What they get is this title, read aloud when they reach the embed, and it is how they decide whether to go into it or move past it.

Say what the thing is, in the words you would use out loud: "Paint pour class booking calendar", "Directions to our Decatur studio", "Studio tour video". A person skimming a page by ear should be able to tell from the title alone whether it is worth stopping for.

Leaving it empty is safe. The embed falls back to the provider's name — "YouTube video player", "Map", "Booking calendar" — which is better than nothing but says nothing about your page. It is worth thirty seconds to write a real one.

When you would use it

  • Every embed, really. It is one short sentence and it is the only description some visitors get.
  • Especially when a page has more than one embed, where "YouTube video player" twice tells nobody anything.

How to change it

  1. Click the embed on the canvas.
  2. In the Modify drawer, open "Selected Component", then "Embed Title".
  3. Type a short description of what is being embedded.
One value, or one per device? Every input in this setting sits under a “Same value for all resolutions” checkbox. Leave it checked for a single value everywhere, or uncheck it to give phones, tablets, and desktops their own. How per-device values work.

Watch out for

  • This is not a heading and it does not appear on the page. Nobody looking at the screen will ever see it. If you want a visible caption, add a Text component above the embed.
  • Do not start with "Video of" or "Embed of". Screen readers already announce that it is a frame; the words are wasted.

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