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

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From: Mike Warner
Date: Apr 10, 2015 2:03PM

The new ones will have captions, and there won't be any action, just slides
and the like, so you're not looking at the same person's face for five
minutes.

Mike Warner
Director of IT Services
MindEdge, Inc.

2015-04-10 15:55 GMT-04:00 Morin, Gary (NIH/OD) [E] < <EMAIL REMOVED> >:

> Ah, right – on the current ones, you did say that, didn't you? But, in
> the new ones, you mentioned there might be slides or something else
> interspersed. So, there could be more visual content included then,
> couldn't there? So, Audio-Description could be appropriate or simply an
> increased/improved narration which takes the visual content and the needs
> of potential viewers into account. Just some Friday afternoon pondering J
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> *From:* Mike Warner [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> *Sent:* Friday, April 10, 2015 3:47 PM
> *To:* Morin, Gary (NIH/OD) [E]
> *Cc:* WebAIM Discussion List
> *Subject:* Re: [WebAIM] video transcripts for talking heads: need to be
> synchronized?
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> Hi Gary,
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> 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.
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> Mike
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> 2015-04-10 15:00 GMT-04:00 Morin, Gary (NIH/OD) [E] < <EMAIL REMOVED> >:
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> 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?
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> Gary
> NIH
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> -----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?
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> 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.
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> Thanks again for the input, everyone!
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> Mike
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