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From: Gerardo Capiel
Date: Feb 17, 2014 2:32PM

You could use YouTube with YouDescribe:

http://youdescribe.ski.org/rel/

Also I have been meaning to email this list to encourage those creating captions or descriptions tracks to make them discoverable via the new Schema.org<http://Schema.org>; accessibility properties.

http://a11ymetadata.org

You can search for captioned videos identified by these accessibility properties using Google Custom Search Engine:

http://www.google.com/cse?cx=001043429226464649088:s0bmhsefbzq&;q=more:p:videoobject-accessibilityfeature:captions<http://www.google.com/cse?cx=001043429226464649088:s0bmhsefbzq&;q=more:p:videoobject-accessibilityfeature:captions#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=more%3Ap%3Avideoobject-accessibilityfeature%3Acaptions&gsc.sort=&gsc.page=1>

Here's what a similar query for described videos looks like:

http://www.google.com/cse?cx=001043429226464649088:s0bmhsefbzq&;q=more:p:videoobject-accessibilityfeature:audiodescription<http://www.google.com/cse?cx=001043429226464649088:s0bmhsefbzq&;q=more:p:videoobject-accessibilityfeature:audiodescription#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=more%3Ap%3Avideoobject-accessibilityfeature%3Aaudiodescription&gsc.page=1>

We hope to convince Google to modify their mainstream video search closed-caption filter to support these properties in order to yield more comprehensive results:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:predictiveanalyticstoday.com&tbm=vid&source=lnt&tbs=cc:1<https://www.google.com/search?q=site:predictiveanalyticstoday.com&client=safari&hl=en&tbm=vid&source=lnt&tbs=cc:1&sa=X&ei=Kn8CU--ED8mT0QHh9YDwCg&ved=0CCQQpwUoAQ&biw=320&bih=460&dpr=2>

Gerardo Capiel
VP of Engineering
Benetech

On Feb 17, 2014, at 12:32 PM, "Hewitt,Susan (DSHS)" < <EMAIL REMOVED> <mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> >> wrote:

Does any know if YouTube supports audio description tracks? When I go to upload I only find options for "annotations." I also can't find any documentation on it one way or the other.

I think there's a plug-in for JW Player to do this but Vimeo does not.

Thanks,
Susan