[Athen] Checking for Captions

[Deborah Armstrong]

I notice that it is much easier to read Youtube captions on a Braille display than it is with speech.

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