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From: Keith (mteye)
Date: Jan 20, 2011 1:33PM

Was there descriptive audio? I found the captioning, and thought that it's
an interesting concept. Not sure how to get to any descriptive stuff though.
What am I looking for? I'm not a big Youtube visitor, so it's just probably
my inexperience there.

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Keith H




-----Original Message-----
From: Carin Headrick
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 1:57 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] YouTube Captioned Video

Yeah I did lose all the context by reading it, but I did have to wonder
in this case if the images were just fluff. Sometimes a piece of the
dialog would be mentioned which would bring it together, but yeah it
took longer to read the text than watch the video. *smile*. But I do
love the idea.

Carin

On 20/01/2011 2:44 PM, Morin, Gary (NIH/OD) [E] wrote:
> Hi, Sylvia,
>
> My one comment or concern is around the inclusion of 'descriptive text'
> instead of the video itself being audio described. Doing it your way does
> avoid the timing issue - working the description into time available
> between the audio portions as well as a non-sighted viewer being able to
> read at his or her own pace, regardless of the length of the video.
> However, not integrating the description into the video for simultaneous
> viewing/listening, the descriptions have no context to what Manan Sharma
> is talking about and if the visuals are related. Posting an
> audio-described version would simply mean posting two versions - one with
> and one without, both having the option of closed-captions to be played.
>
> I'm assuming that the transcript if for a person - deaf or hearing - who
> simply wants to read the content without having to view the view. One
> idea might be to combine the transcript with the 'descriptive text' -
> distinguishing one from the other, perhaps, either by using bullets (for
> the piece of transcript) and indented bullets (for the description) or
> placing the appropriate piece of description in parentheses within the
> body of the transcript, or some other formatting strategy. Or, an audio
> podcast of Mr. Sharma could be posted, with the audio
> description/descriptive text being added in, by a different speaker.
> Although, this would work fine for those with no vision whatsoever, it
> might not be useful for those with limited vision who, with the help of
> AD, are able to make out some of the visuals with partial sight.
>
> Those are my thoughts,
> Gary
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Janet Sylvia [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 8:20 AM
> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> 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
>
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