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Captioning
Considerations
Jayme Johnson
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Thursday, April 30, 2015
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Captioning
Considerations
Jayme Johnson
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Thursday, April 30, 2015
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Overview
• Terms and FAQ’s
• Technology Requirements
• Legal Requirements
• Formatting Captions
• Captioning Process (Generic)
• Tools for Captioning Web-based Video
• Creating Captions with YouTube (DEMO)
My first rule of captioning…
• If you can pay someone else to do your captioning, then do so!
• Getting Your Captions:
• DECT Grant:
http://www.canyons.edu/Offices/DistanceLearning/Captioning/Pages/default.aspx
• Purchase captioned media
• Create your own…
Terms and FAQ’s
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Captions vs. Subtitles
Captions vs. Transcripts
Line 21, .scc files, or “Scenarist”
Accessible Player
• Captions as Instructional Technology
• Transcripts are not good enough
• YouTube Auto-captioning is unacceptable
Technology requirements
• Creating Captions
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A computer/browser that can play YouTube videos
Internet connection
Digital video
Text Transcript (recommended)
• Playing Captions
• A computer/browser that can load YouTube videos
• An accessible player (if not using YouTube)
Legal and Copyright Issues
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Copyright matters, seek permission
Section 508/California 11135
WCAG 2.0 AA
FCC: http://www.fcc.gov/guides/captioning-internet-video-programming
• Chancellor’s Office Legal Opinion M02-22:
http://extranet.cccco.edu/Portals/1/Legal/Ops/OpsArchive/02-22.pdf
Formatting Captions
Comprehensive guidelines are available in the Caption Key from:
http://www.dcmp.org/captioningkey/
• Use two lines.
• Left-align the two lines.
• Use 32 characters per line (max).
• Use Sans Serif Font.
• Use Upper and Lower case letters.
• Transcribe Dialogue word-for-word.
• Ignore nonsense syllables such as “Uh” or “Um”.
Line Division Rules
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Keep modifier with word it modifies.
Keep prepositional phrases together.
Keep a person’s name and title together.
Break lines before conjunctions (FAN BOYS).
Keep auxiliary verb (can, have, will) with the word it modifies.
Break captions at the end of a sentence.
Presentation rate
• Allow a minimum of 1.5 seconds duration for each 32 characters of
text.
• Allow a minimum of two seconds duration to display the last 32
characters of text before “blanking” or removing a caption.
• Do not display any caption for less than one second.
• Maximum duration for line of captions should not exceed three
seconds (per 32 characters).
Italics
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Use for voice-over narration.
Use for off-screen dialogue, unless entire video is narrated.
Dreaming, thinking, etc.
Background audio: PA system, intercom announcements, etc.
Foreign words should be italicized.
Use italics to indicate any kind of emphasis.
Sound Effects
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Include important sounds.
Use descriptions (in brackets) and onomatopoeia.
Italicize if off-screen.
Use lowercase for describing sound effects.
Sustained sounds use the present participle (-ing).
Be as precise as possible.
Music
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Use descriptions that indicate mood.
Caption lyrics verbatim.
Include name of vocalist/group and song title in brackets.
Put musical notes around lyrics (leave space).
When no lyrics are available or you can not use them, describe the
mood/attitude of the lyrics.
Generic Captioning Process
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Transcribe audio content.
Format the digital text.
Determine timing for each line.
Save digital caption file.
Integrate caption file and video file together for presentation.
Deliver video in an accessible video player.
Accessible Video Player Required
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Captions are not enough
Keyboard controllable interface
Caption stream being presented as accessible information?
Examples:
• http://terrillthompson.com/ableplayer/
• https://www.paypal-engineering.com/2014/09/05/introducing-anaccessible-html5-video-player/
Tools for Captioning
• Subtitle Horse - http://subtitle-horse.com/
• MagPIE - http://ncam.wgbh.org/invent_build/web_multimedia/toolsguidelines/magpie
• YouTube – http://www.youtube.com
• Amara – http://www.amara.org
A word about YouTube Video
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You can only caption your own videos.*
YouTube provides robust support for captioning.
BEWARE of auto-captions- not adequate!
YouTube has other features worth noting.
What to do when you don’t own the video…
• * Amara claims to provide capability to enable other people to caption your
videos (crowdsource). This is still under investigation…
Demo Time
• Let’s do some captioning…
Resources for Further Study
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Captioning Key: http://www.dcmp.org/captioningkey/
Subtitle Horse: http://subtitle-horse.com/
YouTube Revealed: http://wac.osu.edu/examples/youtube-player-controls/
Caption other people’s YouTube videos: http://amara.org/en/
WebAIM tutorial: http://webaim.org/techniques/captions/
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