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From: John E Brandt
Date: Jan 20, 2011 2:54PM

Cool. So the Interactive Transcript is indeed a new free feature of YouTube.


Thanks.

~j

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

-----Original Message-----
From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Karen Mardahl
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 3:16 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] YouTube Captioned Video

Hi Janet

Nice idea to add descriptive text, but like others have indicated, I'd
suggest merging it with the actual text as one solution.

To those who didn't know about the interactive transcript, you can download
my slides for the notes of how to do this:
http://www.slideshare.net/kmardahl/technical-communication-and-inclusion-534
7819
To read the notes that contain the complete how-to, you must have JavaScript
turned off if reading online - or simply download the file.
I have not gotten the notes to work online, which is disappointing.

regards, Karen Mardahl

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Janet Sylvia < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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