[Athen] Checking for Captions

Bossley, Peter A. bossley.5 at osu.edu
Fri Nov 2 14:17:24 PDT 2018


Many video players do have accessible caption toggles and some make the text accessible to screen readers. But if a video has burned-in captions, there wouldn’t be a way for a screen reader user to detect those.

From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> On Behalf Of Robert Spangler
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Subject: [Athen] Checking for Captions

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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