[Athen] Checking for Captions

Robert Spangler rspangler1 at udayton.edu
Mon Nov 5 10:08:01 PST 2018


Awesome, thanks everyone for your suggestions. I will archive these to
provide to whomever we hire to fill our web accessibility specialist
position.


On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 12:27 PM Joseph Polizzotto <jpolizzotto at berkeley.edu>
wrote:


> 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

>>> 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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Robert Spangler
Disability Services Technical Support Specialist
rspangler1 at udayton.edu
Office of Learning Resources (OLR) - RL 023
Ryan C. Harris Learning & Teaching Center (LTC)
University of Dayton | 300 College Park | Dayton, Ohio 45469-1302
Phone: 937-229-2066
Fax: 937-229-3270
Ohio Relay: 711 (available for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing)
Web Site: http://go.udayton.edu/learning
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