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Captioning Basics
VLC Professional
Development CenterSlide2
About Us…
VLC Professional Development Center
Hosted at Wake Technical Community College
Provide training and support on distance learning and teaching to faculty throughout the NCCCS
Contact information
Jennifer Jones, Center Director
919-866-5636
jjones4@waketech.edu
vlcprofessionaldevelopment.pbworks.com Slide3
Session Overview
Why Caption?
Captioning
Vocabulary
Online Captioning Tools
Amara
YouTube
Finding Captioned VideosSlide4
Why Caption?
Who
benefits
from captions?
Deaf
Hearing impaired
Anyone unable to access the audio for any
reason
Viewers not familiar with the language being spoken in the video
Supports multiple learning stylesSlide5
Section 508
From Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act
§ 1194.22 Web-based intranet and internet information and applications.
(b) Equivalent alternatives for any multimedia presentation shall be synchronized with the presentation.
§
1194.24 Video and multimedia
products
(c
) All training and informational video and multimedia productions which support the agency's mission, regardless of format, that contain speech or other audio information necessary for the comprehension of the content, shall be open or closed captioned. Slide6
Captioning Vocabulary
Five Key Words:
Transcript
Captions
Subtitles
Open Captions
Closed CaptionsSlide7
Transcript
Text
version of all of the important audio
information
Includes :
Spoken word
Conversation
Other
sounds that influence the content or the context of the audio.
Multiple
speakers are identified in the
transcriptSlide8
Captions
Text
displayed on or below the video in unison with the
audio
Captions are an equivalent to the spoken word
Captions must be accessible (access to turn on or off with assistive technology)Slide9
Subtitles
Synchronous
text-based replacements for the audio
content
Generally provided in
a language different from the
audio
Subtitles
facilitate language
accessibilitySlide10
Open Captions
Embedded
in the video
Visible
all the
time
Open
captions cannot be turned
off
Generally
not the solution of
choiceSlide11
Closed Captions
Can
be turned on and off by the
viewer
Closed
caption files work with the video file, but are not part of the video itself.
Player
control allows captions to be toggled on and
off
Preferred
accessibility
solutionSlide12
Online Captioning Tools - Amara
Amara
- http://www.amara.org/en
/
Free tool for captioning videos already online
Can link YouTube account with Amara to sync videos for captioning
Tutorial:
NCLOR – Amara Universal SubtitlesSlide13
Online Captioning Tools - YouTube
Add captions to your videos in YouTube
Will need a transcript saved as a text (.txt) file
YouTube will sync transcript with audio in video
Demo of uploading a transcript to YouTube
http://
youtu.be/G-COLjDgRck Slide14
Finding Captioned Videos
YouTube
http://www.youtube.com
/
Filter search results for
closed captioned
videos
Teacher’s Domain
http://www.teachersdomain.org
/
Search by topic, grade level, resource type
Filter search results for captioned videos
Request captioned videos from publishersSlide15
Summary
Provide equivalent content for video and audio content
Video
Transcript
and captions for spoken words throughout the
video
Video
descriptions of relevant actions taking place on the screen should also be provided.
Synchronize
with the action as it occurs on the screen.
Audio
– provide text transcription Slide16
Questions?