MAGpie Reboot: CADET Caption And Description Editing Tool New, Free Caption-Authoring Software Bryan Gould Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) WGBH Educational Foundation http://ncam.wgbh.org

Captions The majority of online videos are self-generated, with original content that is not accessible to millions of people who are deaf or hard of hearing because the videos are not captioned.

Captions Federal regulations and related litigation will continue to dramatically increase the number of online videos that are required to be captioned, with high-quality captions. Automated speech-to-text captioning does not provide reliable access. No simple, inexpensive caption-editing software for creating quality post-production online captions.

Captions The National Center for Accessible Media at WGBH (NCAM) is developing CADET (Caption and Description Editing Tool), a free, downloadable caption authoring software application.

About NCAM Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media at the WGBH Educational Foundation (NCAM); http://ncam.wgbh.org 45 years of access technologies at WGBH The Caption Center (1972) Descriptive Video Service (1990) NCAM (1991)

About NCAM 6 R&D facility with the mission to make electronic media of all types accessible to people with sensory impairments Work funded by federal grants, private foundations and strategic partners large and small Expertise in on-line accessibility of all kinds (Web, multimedia, PDF, captioning, description, etc.) Expertise in standards and guidelines (Section 508, WCAG, e-books/textbooks, image description, timed text, synchronized multimedia, etc.) 6

Captions (1972) 25 June 2002 Captions displayed on the TV show, The French Chef with Julia Child. The captions appear on-screen as Julia cooks, “The first stew is dark. It’s cooked in red wine.”

MoPix (1997) 8 In a movie theater, a woman reads captions displayed on a translucent reflector, attached to the seat’s cup holder. 8

MAGpie (2000) 9 Image of the MAGpie software. 9

CADET (2017) Caption And Description Editing Tool 25 June 2002 Caption And Description Editing Tool High-quality, low-cost, easy-to-use caption editor for D.I.Y. captioning Produce caption files compatible with all popular web browsers and online media players Schools, government agencies, colleges and universities, non-profits

CADET (2017) 11 Image of CADET software. 11

CADET funding Indigogo campaign November 2015 Low funding High visibility & interest Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office April 2016 $70,000 grant Development & Dissemination

CADET Demo IT’S CADET DEMO TIME!!!

CADET specs Locally hosted HMTL5 – works on all browsers Uses video formats that play natively in browsers MP4 / M4V Input: WebVTT, SRT, TTML, plain text Output: WebVTT, SRT, TTML, plain text

CADET Workflows All Video Players Custom Players CAPTION FILE 15 CADET All Video Players CAPTION FILE Custom Players HTML & Flash Workflow: movie is captioned with CADET, caption file is read and displayed on all online video players including YouTube, Facebook and Vimeo, as well as custom HTML and Flash players. 15

CADET Workflows All Video Players Custom Players CAPTION FILE SCRIPT 16 CADET All Video Players CAPTION FILE SCRIPT NCAM is developing CADET (Caption and Description Editing Tool), a free, downloadable caption authoring software… Custom Players HTML & Flash Workflow: text script is loaded into CADET and edited into a finished caption file. Caption file is read and displayed on all online video players including YouTube, Facebook and Vimeo, as well as custom HTML and Flash players. 16

CADET Workflows All Video Players Custom Players CAPTION FILE 17 CADET All Video Players CAPTION FILE Auto-Caption Script Custom Players HTML & Flash Workflow: captions are generated using YouTube’s Auto-Caption. That caption script is loaded into CADET and edited into a finished caption file. Caption file is read and displayed on all online video players including YouTube, Facebook and Vimeo, as well as custom HTML and Flash players. 17

CADET timeline Development including new UI is approaching beta (TODAY) Identify beta testers for CADET software (TODAY) Release beta version of CADET to testers (DECEMBER/JANUARY) Collect feedback from beta testers (Q1 2017) Implement changes based on feedback (Q1 2017) Release final version of CADET to general public (Spring 2017)

Contact Bryan Gould Director of Accessible Learning and Assessment Technology WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) bryan_gould@wgbh.org