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From: Carin Headrick
Date: Jan 20, 2011 1:54PM


Yeah if you don't press enter on the date, you get a very very
abbreviated description. Or sometimes you hit enter on the date and then
you see the same teeny description but below you'll see the date again
and then a longer one. I didn't know that trick either until someone
told me.

Carin

On 20/01/2011 3:42 PM, Keith (mteye) wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>