[Athen] Checking for Captions

[Joseph Polizzotto]

Hi Robert:

Another way to check for captions in a YouTube video is to use the DIY
Captions Editor. You could do the following:

1. Copy the YouTube URL
2. Paste the URL in the text box at the DIYCaptions site:
https://www.diycaptions.com/
3.(Once the DIY Captions Editor interfaces open in a new tab) you can use
these handy shortcut keys:
- F8: replay the audio that corresponds to the current caption block
- Down Arrow: read the current caption block
- Tab: move to the next caption block

I tested using Google Chrome + NVDA and I was able to navigate from one
caption to the next pretty easily. I pressed Tab and then down arrow to
hear the captions.

Note: the DIY Captions Editor also displays all the captions as an
interactive transcript by default. You can navigate to this area too and
read the captions as a running text, except that each caption block is
announced as a link when you use the interactive transcript view. You could
try mousing over the Menu (since the dropdown menu is not in the Tab Order)
and selecting Display captions as Plain Text. Then mouse over the textbox
(also inaccessible!) on the right-hand side, click into the "Edit
Multi-Line" area, and use up and down arrows to read each line of the whole
transcript. You might want to copy and paste the whole text to review later.

HTH,

Joseph

On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 8:14 AM Robert Spangler <rspangler1 at udayton.edu>
wrote:


> Hi Lucy, thanks for this informative reply!  I did go into a YouTube video

> and was able to read the captions by arrowing up above the location slider

> on the video.  It did not read them automatically; I had to arrow up and

> down to hear them, which could be problematic since they change a lot, but

> at least I was able to hear them.  If you have suggestions on how I can do

> this better, that would be great.  Thanks again for confirming that I can

> actually read the captions though!

>

>

> On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 1:37 PM Lucy Greco <lgreco at berkeley.edu> wrote:

>

>> 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

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>>

>>

>>

>> 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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