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From: Bourne, Sarah (ITD)
Date: Nov 3, 2011 1:39PM

I don't know anything about cost, but WGBH's Media Access Group includes a number of captioning services, including real time. More info at http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/mag/services/captioning/ (They also do descriptions, by the way.)

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-----Original Message-----
From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Ryan E. Benson
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 6:01 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Converting Web Video Captions

There is a company that does real-time captioning on news videos, like you are looking for Randy. I am forgetting the name, but it is definitely not low-cost. You have to use their player, which from the demo it was either not accessible, or just the play/pause button. So the captions would not be accessible to screen readers.

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Ryan E. Benson



On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Randy Pope < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> That's true, Jared.  The ideal system is to have the caption
> streamline into the user's buffer in the device and the braille reader
> can read off the buffer at their preferred reading speed.  If one
> would notice, more and more are using these videos without supplying an alternative text version.
>
> So this bring us to the Section 508 issue.  Is the websites legally
> responsible for providing an alternative text?  Often the deaf-blind
> people are left out in the rulemaking process.  On the other hand it
> is very difficult to find them.
>
> With Warm Regards,
> Randy Pope
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Jared Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 5:07 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Converting Web Video Captions
>
> 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
>