WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: video transcripts for talking heads: need to be synchronized?

for

From: Mike Warner
Date: Apr 10, 2015 1:47PM

Hi Gary,

since the videos are just single-person talking heads with no changes in
the scene, we don't need audio descriptions...based on my understanding of
the regs, anyway.

Mike

2015-04-10 15:00 GMT-04:00 Morin, Gary (NIH/OD) [E] < <EMAIL REMOVED> >:

> IF a major overhaul of the videos is in the works for the near-future,
> then holding off might well make sense, time and money-wise. What about
> audio-description? Will you be able to work that in at the same time,
> bringing the videos up to a more full level of accessibility and
> conformance while you have the opportunity?
>
> Gary
> NIH
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Warner [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2015 2:19 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] video transcripts for talking heads: need to be
> synchronized?
>
> Thanks all. I agree with everyone. We do have transcripts available via
> a link right below the video player, but they're not synced for captions,
> which, apparently, follows the WCAG rules for this type of video. I also
> agree that, since we have the scripts for the videos, the hard work is
> done. I've been using SyncWords to generate caption files for the videos on
> our corporate site that don't have them already, but we've got hundreds of
> talking heads videos with no good way to automatically distinguish them
> from the rest of the videos in our courses. SyncWords has a great API that
> I could leverage to automate this, but my boss says that we will replace
> those videos by the end of the Summer with better versions that include
> slides or something else interspersed. As such, they will require captions
> and we will create them. Given that we'll be replacing the videos, I can
> see his point of not spending the time to go though all of our courses to
> find and process the videos.
>
> Thanks again for the input, everyone!
>
> Mike
>
>