[Athen] Checking for Captions

[Robert Spangler]

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On November 5, 2018 2:59:43 PM Joseph Polizzotto <jpolizzotto at berkeley.edu> 
wrote:


> Hi Robert:

>

> I forgot to mention youtube-dl <https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/>, which

> is a handy command line tool that you can install to download the video or

> captions posted on YouTube or Vimeo.

>

> Once installed, simply enter the following command to see what caption

> tracks are available:

>

> youtube-dl YouTubeURL --list-subs

>

> -- list-subs: get a list of all the YouTube "subtitle" tracks

>

> Then you could use one of these commands to download the captions:

>

> 1) Download an Edited track

>

> youtube-dl YouTubeURL  --skip-download --write-sub --sub-lang en --output

> "%(title)s.%(ext)s"

>

> --skip-download: skips downloading the video

> --write-sub: downloads a caption track

> --sub-lang en: specifies the English caption track for download

> --output "%(title)s.%(ext)s": specifies that you want the name of the video

> and the caption format to be included in the name of the downloaded file

>

> 2) Download an Automatic Captions track

>

> youtube-dl YouTubeURL  --skip-download --write-auto-sub --sub-lang en

> --output "%(title)s.%(ext)s"

>

> --write-auto-sub: downloads an auto-caption track

> --sub-lang en: specifies the English automatic caption track for download

>

> If there are no automatic captions available for the video, you will get a

> warning in the terminal:

>

> WARNING: Couldn't find automatic captions for Name of the Video

>

> YouTube usually makes it captions tracks in VTT or TTML format. If you

> wanted to strip out the timecodes and just get a plain text version, you

> could get write a sed script for that or I would just use DIYCaptions and

> select the Plain Text display. Then copy and paste that into your text

> editor.

>

> HTH,

>

> Joseph

>

>

>

>

>

>

> On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 10:09 AM Robert Spangler <rspangler1 at udayton.edu>

> wrote:

>

>> 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

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