[Athen] Checking for Captions

[Lucy Greco]

HELLO: YOUR RONG WE CAN CHECK FOR CAPTIONS AND MANY BLIND PEOPLE EVEN ARE
CART   PROVIDERS. MOST PLATFORMS LIKE YOUTUBE AND VIMEO HAVE THE CAPTIONS
AS TEXT ON THE SCREEN AND THE SCREEN READER CAN  SPEAK THESE OR MORE
INPORTENTLY A  HARD OF HEREING OR  DEF BLIND PERSON CAN FOLLOW ALONG ON A
BRAILLE DISPLAY. TRY TURNING CAPTIONS ON IN YOUTUBE AND MUTING THE  VIDEO
AND HERE THE SCREEN READER READ A LONG. ON YOUTUBE YOU CAN ALSO COPY THE
TEXT OF THE  TRANSCRIPT AND SEND IT TO A NOTE TAKER OR EMBOSSER AND READ
ALONG LOOKING FOR BAD CAPTIONS AND THEN EDIT THE FILE AND RE UPLOAD IT. THE
ONLY THING I HAVE FOUND I CAN'T DO IS EDUT IN THE YOUTUBE EDITOR BUT I HAVE
AN ASK IN TO GOOGLE FOR THAT ONE DAY LUCY
Lucia Greco
Web Accessibility Evangelist
IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration
University of California, Berkeley
(510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
Follow me on twitter @accessaces



On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 3:42 PM Robert Spangler <rspangler1 at udayton.edu>
wrote:


> Hello, is it possible for a blind person to check if there are captions in

> a video?  Everything I know tells me not, but I want to ask anyway in case

> there is some way that I am unaware of.  The captions are displayed in the

> actual video content, which is not readable by a screen reader.  I know on

> YouTube, I might be able to tell by whether the captions button is present

> or not, but I'm not sure if that button is always there or just when

> captions are available.  Even then, I don't think I would be able to

> evaluate the captions anyway.

>

> Thanks,

> Robert

>

>

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