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Re: Converting Web Video Captions

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Nov 1, 2011 3:06PM

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Randy Pope < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> While the video
> presentation itself can be presented in a text format accessible for those
> who use braille to read, it is not a workable solution for real time
> captions such as the news broadcast.

I'm not aware of any method for making real-time text accessible to
braille displays. The braille display reading rate and the real-time
text streaming rate will always be different - you can't force a
braille display user to read at the same pace as the text, and you
can't force the text to stream at the user's reading rate or it would
no longer be real-time. This same real-time text issue applies to
screen readers.

This doesn't, however, mean that the user must wait until well after
the broadcast to get the content in a static transcript. They could
start consuming the content at the beginning, and do so at their set
rate, but this would still not be truly real-time content.

Jared