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Closed Captioning: Your Guide to Technology and Accessibility
Shannon Cowling, Assistant Director Accessible Communication and Media
Kent State University Slide2
What are Captions?
“Captioning
is the process of converting the audio content of a television broadcast, webcast, film, video, CD-ROM, DVD, live event, and other productions into text and displaying the text on a screen or monitor. Captions not only display words as the textual equivalent of spoken dialogue or narration, but they also include speaker identification, sound effects, and music description
.”What are they, really?Who here is coordinating cc?
Based on definition in
the Described and Captioned Media Program
https
://
dcmp.org/equalaccess/C.html
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Session Overview
Goals for today’s session
:Understand captioning best practices and basic technical termsIdentify campus partnerships and resources, captioning vendors, and budgetary challengesCompare current workflow to suggested workflow
CaptionSlide4
Closed captioning
Why caption?
https
://wistia.com/blog/more-accessible-videoHow does it actually work?
Technology requirements
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Terminology Slide6
Terms to know
Closed
captioned
DecoderOffline captioning
Open-captioned
Subtitle
Transcription
Timecode
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Terms continued
Captions vs.
Transcript
Captionist vs. TranscriberPost-Production vs. Live CaptionsClosed Caption Formats
DFXP
Flash players
SRT
YouTube and web media
WebVTT
HTML5
SAMI
Microsoft / Windows Media
QT
QuickText / QuickTimeSlide8
Best PracticesSlide9
Quality
Synchronized and appear the same time the audio is delivered
Equivalent – meaning and intention is preserved
Accurate Consistent and clear
Readable
Captioning
Key
http
://
www.captioningkey.org/quality_captioning.html
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Best practices
Case
Mixed case preferred
CAPITAL LETTERS imply?FontSans serif
Proportionally spaced
Translucent box
Two lines
Left justified
Lines should not exceed 32 characters
Sentence break – at a logical point or pauseSlide11
Examples
Inappropriate
Seth
picked up his black cat.Lila scooted underthe bed.
Darnell
and Tameka
Johnson are at meeting.
In
seconds she arrived, and
he ordered a drink.
She
suspected her
face said it all.
Appropriate
Seth pick up
his black cat.
Lila scooted
under the bed.
Darnell and Tameka Johnson
are at the meeting
.
In seconds she arrived,
and he ordered a
drink
She suspected her face
s
aid
it all. Slide12
Example
YouTube
If you remember anything from today……Slide13
How?Slide14
Process (In-House)
Verbatim transcript
Include speaker ID and sound effects
Divide the transcript into 32 characters with no more than 2 lines of textUse captioning software to add the time codes and synch
Import the captioning file into the video
Consider where the video is housed
Quality control
& supervision
Scalability Slide15
Process (Outsourcing)
Cost
Reputation
Turnaround time Workflow & compatibility with current softwareHow do you coordinate services?
Current workflow
Suggested workflowSlide16
Considerations
Campus Partnerships
- NetworkingBudgetTimeStaffing
Face-to-face and online courses
Implementation
Technology
Stakeholders
EducationSlide17
Alternatives – Not recommended
Speech recognition
You get what you pay for
Transcripts onlyNot captioning Slide18
Let’s Caption
https://amara.org/en
/
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Questions?
Contact me at
scowlin1@kent.edu
.Connect on social media. Slide20
References & Resources
3 Play Media -
http://www.3playmedia.com
/ Captioning Key - http
://www.captioningkey.org/quality_captioning.html
Further explanation and examples of captioning may be found at:
http://
www.dcmp.org/captioningkey/types_methods_styles.html
Cielo
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Cross, J. and Hornsby, A. (ND). The Complete Guide to Closed Captioning and Educational Video Accessibility.
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from
http
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ecups.ecuad.ca/wpcontent/uploads/2015/04/The+Complete+Guide+to+Closed+Captioning.pdf
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Movie Captioner
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http://www.synchrimedia.com
/
NBC Learn -
http
://
www.nbclearn.com/portal/site/HigherEd
Pepnet
2 -
http://
www.pepnet.org/resources/access-and-accommodations/Offline%20Captioning