Maine CITE Program Training Webinar Caption That! Tools for Making Your Videos Accessible to All Learners March 13, 2013

2Presenter Cynthia Curry, Maine AIM Program

Participants will understand The purpose of closed captioning. The history of captioning in the U.S. Federal legislation associated with closed captioning. Specific tools for accomplishing closed captioning.

What are captions?

A Brief History

October 9, 2012 National Association of the Deaf, Et Al. V. Netflix “Netflix Inc. and the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) have submitted a joint Consent Decree to a federal court in Springfield, Mass., ensuring closed captions in 100% of Netflix streaming content within two years.”

October 8, 2012

Who uses captions? o Patrons of Pubs Fitness clubs Airports o English learners o Roommates

Literacy & Closed Captions “Watching Thomas the Tank Engine” by Lou Bueno CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Make Your Videos Searchable “Magnifying” by Evan Long CC BY- NC 2.0

Self-Captioning Ingredients

Note “script” in “transcript” Transcription is no fun and speech recognition can messy. “Messy” by Jens Vilhelm Rothe CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Today’s Featured Tools QuickTime 7 Pro for Mac OS X. CaptionTube. Universal Subtitles from Amara. YouTube automatic captioning with Google speech recognition.

QuickTime 7 Pro CaptionTube Universal Subtitles YouTube automatic ProsCustomizable and quality control Ease of useEasier to useEasiest to use Video format examples.mov,.mp4,.m4v YouTube only.flv,.mp4, YouTube, Vimeo, Ogg YouTube only EffortManualLess manualEven less manual Mostly automatic Cost$29.99Free

Captioning with QuickTime 7 Pro Video open in QT 7 Pro Caption file

Captioning with QuickTime 7 Pro Video open in QT 7 Pro Caption file Formatting code:

Captioning with QuickTime 7 Pro Video open in QT 7 Pro Caption file Formatting code: Time scales:

Captioning with QuickTime 7 Pro Video open in QT 7 Pro Caption file Formatting code: Time scales: Text track:

Getting Started with QuickTime 7 Pro Please visit the website of WebAIM (see Method 1):

Captioning with CaptionTube

Captioning with CaptionTube

Captioning with CaptionTube Caption text:

Captioning with CaptionTube Caption text: Time scales:

Captioning with CaptionTube Caption text: Time scales: Track area

Captioning with CaptionTube Caption text: Time scales: Track area Captions:

Captioning with CaptionTube

Getting Started with CaptionTube CaptionTube has a help page with FAQs and video tutorials

Captioning with Universal Subtitles

Captioning with Universal Subtitles Press the “Play” button and start transcribing 4 sec at a time (or tab key)

Captioning with Universal Subtitles Press the “Play” button and start transcribing 4 sec at a time (or tab key) Speed mode

Captioning with Universal Subtitles Press the “Play” button and start transcribing 4 sec at a time (or tab key) The “Re-play” button comes in handy (or shift-tab key) Speed mode

Captioning with Universal Subtitles Caption text: Press the “Play” button and start transcribing 4 sec at a time (or tab key)

Captioning with Universal Subtitles When done entering the text, choose the Sync button

Captioning with Universal Subtitles Watch and listen and tap the down-arrow key on your keyboard when the next caption should appear

Getting Started with Universal Subtitles The Amara Support Center has a page of “FAQs and How-To Articles” s/

Captioning in YouTube

Captioning in YouTube While logged in, choose the “Captions” tab

Captioning in YouTube Upload either a caption file or a transcript

Captioning in YouTube Google’s speech recognition synchronizes the video and text file (default timescale is 5 seconds)

Captioning in YouTube

Getting Started with YouTube Captioning YouTube has a “Getting started” page

Key Points Closed captioning: Is not only supported by federal mandates that apply to schools, it’s the right thing to do for teaching all kids. Requires technical know-how but user-friendly and no-cost tools are available and will continue to improve.

Thank You Please visit or contact the Maine AIM Program online.