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Re: Captioning Verbatim or for Corrected English

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From: L Snider
Date: Mar 9, 2016 1:38PM

I have enjoyed reading all the emails on this one, thanks everyone!

I agree that ums and ahs can be distracting for everyone-no doubt at all.
However, for me I want to give the same experience to everyone-so I guess
everyone has to suffer with weird throat things, ums and ahs!

Seriously though, when I do captions and text transcriptions, for me (and
again this is my view only) I want a person who is blind to have the same
experience as a person who is deaf, etc. This is why I try to make the
experience similar for everyone by keeping those in the transcriptions and
captioning. Again, not everyone does and that is cool. For me, having
captions is an important thing, so even without the weird throat sounds or
phrasing, everyone wins because at least we have captioning.

Cheers

Lisa

On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 2:09 PM, Guy Hickling < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> My thinking on the matter of umms and errs in video recordings is that
> this is an analogous situation to putting alt text on images for the
> benefit of blind people. The WCAG distinguishes between images giving
> useful infformation and images purely for decorative purposes, and
> says not to add alt text to the latter. The reason is because blind
> users don't want to hear all that unnecessary stuff about lines and
> shapes that don't provide any useful information.
>
> So I believe umms and errs should be treated in the same way, and not
> be repeated in the captions. They certainly annoy me when I am
> watching captions (as I often do when there is a lot of noise from the
> family in the background when I'm watching TV.)
>
> Or, to put it another way, I think deaf people have enough difficulty
> watching videos (trying to keep up with the captions at the same time
> as trying to watch the action on screen is much more difficult than
> for us hearing people) that we should take out the umms and errs just
> to make things easier for them!
>
> Perhaps, also, another way of looking at it is that if hearing people
> are watching a poor speaker in a video, our attention is half on what
> we are seeing, which takes our mind off the unpleasent umms and errs.
> But the deaf person has to concentrate much more on the captions, so
> is likely to be more annoyed by umms. But as to the original question,
> about whether to correct incorrect grammar, I am less certain about
> what to do for that so I'll continue to watch this thread with
> interest!
>
> Regards,
> Guy Hickling
> > > > >