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From: John E Brandt
Date: Jan 20, 2011 12:15PM

Hi Janet,

Not sure if your message was directed to members of the listserv who are
Assistive Technology (AT) users or the general list.

I am NOT an AT user. However, the video with CC, video descriptions and
transcript looks great to me. I'm curious on how you were able to create and
load the interactive transcript. I have not seen this before and wonder if
it is a new feature in YouTube. It's pretty cool.

The only thing I could suggest is to change the settings (if possible) so
the video does not start to run immediately. If there were some directions
to let users know about the availability of the CC and the transcripts, that
would be helpful. But these suggestions may not be possible to accomplish
with YouTube.

~j

John E. Brandt
www.jebswebs.com
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207-622-7937
Augusta, Maine, USA


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Janet Sylvia
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 8:20 AM
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Subject: [WebAIM] YouTube Captioned Video

Greetings,

I would like to ask your opinion of accessible video our organization has
uploaded to YouTube.

The video is captioned and there are Text Transcript and Descriptive Text
files available with the video.

Could you please share your thoughts about this? Anything to improve? Were
you able to access the video and both text files?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_-ZFKTGQfo


Thanks in advance for your help,
Janet


Janet Sylvia
Digital Media Professional
University of Georgia