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Re: Converting Web Video Captions

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Nov 1, 2011 1:18PM

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Randy Pope < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> In developing a website for the deaf-blind audience, I'm looking for a
> method, program or whatever that will convert web video closed caption into
> a format that can be outputted in a braille display.

The format you want is text. There isn't a special captioning format
that is accessible to a braille display. In order to generate
captions, there had to have been a text transcript. Simply make that
transcript available to address the needs of deaf-blind users.

This transcript should include more than just the spoken audio, but
should include other auditory and visual cues and descriptions so that
the full content of the video is available entirely from this text
content. It's often best to present it in HTML with appropriate
markup, etc.

Jared