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From: Keith (mteye)
Date: Jan 20, 2011 1:45PM

Ah. I understand. Click the date. For some reason, I'm not seeing it, or I
should say Jaws isn't seeing it. So it's probably one of those things
related to my lack of youtube experience, or youtube itself. <insert dumb
look from me here.>

I do like the addition to the media that was done, more people ought to post
their media this way.

from
Keith H

-----Original Message-----
From: Carin Headrick
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 2:17 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] YouTube Captioned Video

If you click on the date, then a bunch more stuff will appear, and there
was a link for descriptive text of video. It's not necessarily
descriptive audio so much as it is a written description of the video.

On 20/01/2011 3:10 PM, Keith (mteye) wrote:
> 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.
>
> from
> 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
>>
>>
>>