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From: Jean Watkins
Date: Tue, Jul 31 2001 7:48PM
Subject: Video clips
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Our site offers some short informational video clips. Most of them are not
closed captioned and we provide the text of the video underneath its
hyperlinked title. We would like to rearrange these pages and want to know
if we could provide the text in a downloadable .txt document or some other
way. What are the alternatives that can be used for video clips?
By the way, the last couple weeks this list has been more active and has
provided a wealth of information. Thank you!
Jean L. Watkins
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From: Prof Norm Coombs
Date: Tue, Jul 31 2001 7:58PM
Subject: Re: Video clips
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If the video is just a talking head, then disconnected transcriptions of
the audio portion is probably passable. It does NOT however meet either
the Web Accessibility Initiative guidelines nor the Federal Section 508
standards both of which advocate actual streaming captions. Certainly if
the video is more than a flat lecture, then people need to look at the
video simultaneously with reading the text of the audio in order to make
good sense of the video.
SMIL (synchronized multimedia integration language) is a standard that
instructs the client player to display the video and the text together.
Preparing synchronized text takes a lot of time and work. EASI is
providing an Internet captioning service. You can see info on it from our
home page http://easi.cc and also if you take the webcast link you will
find a link to Biotechnology Works a captioned video.
Norm
CEO EASI
At 09:49 PM 7/31/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Our site offers some short informational video clips. Most of them are not
>closed captioned and we provide the text of the video underneath its
>hyperlinked title. We would like to rearrange these pages and want to know
>if we could provide the text in a downloadable .txt document or some other
>way. What are the alternatives that can be used for video clips?
>
>By the way, the last couple weeks this list has been more active and has
>provided a wealth of information. Thank you!
>
>Jean L. Watkins
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>http://www.AbilityForum.com
>Community Access Through Technology
>
>Like This Internet Resource? Click to Recommend-It (r)
><http://www.recommend-it.com/l.z.e?s=861947>;
>
>
>
From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Tue, Jul 31 2001 7:51PM
Subject: Re: Video clips
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You can absolutely link to to a text transcript. In general, you can
provide access to the content by:
1) adding captions -- WGBH/NCAM has a free tool for creating captions called
MAGpie. I can answer any questions you may have about this.
2) providing a text transcript -- this can be accomplished in a few ways.
You can do what you're already doing (posting the transcript under the link
to the video), you can link to an html version, or you can add the
transcript to a SMIL file so that it appears in paragraph form next to the
video. The only one of these that would be officially synchronized is the
captions.
3) Adding audio descriptions -- you can also use MAGpie for adding an
additional sound track to describe the visual action. It seems like a video
addressing visual impairment should be described.
Just offering possible solutions...
Andrew
On 7/31/01 9:49 PM, Jean Watkins ( = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ) wrote:
> Our site offers some short informational video clips. Most of them are not
> closed captioned and we provide the text of the video underneath its
> hyperlinked title. We would like to rearrange these pages and want to know
> if we could provide the text in a downloadable .txt document or some other
> way. What are the alternatives that can be used for video clips?
>
> By the way, the last couple weeks this list has been more active and has
> provided a wealth of information. Thank you!
>
> Jean L. Watkins
> = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
> http://www.AbilityForum.com
> Community Access Through Technology
>
> Like This Internet Resource? Click to Recommend-It (r)
> <http://www.recommend-it.com/l.z.e?s=861947>;
>
>
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