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Captioning Basics

Captioning Basics. VLC Professional Development Center. 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

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Captioning Basics

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  1. Captioning Basics VLC Professional Development Center

  2. 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

  3. Session Overview • Why Caption? • Captioning Vocabulary • Online Captioning Tools • Amara • YouTube • Finding Captioned Videos

  4. 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 styles

  5. 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.

  6. Captioning Vocabulary Five Key Words: • Transcript • Captions • Subtitles • Open Captions • Closed Captions

  7. 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 transcript

  8. 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)

  9. Subtitles • Synchronous text-based replacements for the audio content • Generally provided in a language different from the audio • Subtitles facilitate language accessibility

  10. Open Captions • Embedded in the video • Visible all the time • Open captions cannot be turned off • Generally not the solution of choice

  11. 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 solution

  12. 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 Subtitles

  13. 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

  14. 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 publishers

  15. 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

  16. Questions?

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