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<p class=MsoNormal>All,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Many of you already know that I am passionate about getting
transcripts and captioning added to on-line videos. I’ve always
tried to frame the dialogue around the greater benefit captioning/transcripts
provide to all users, not just those in a particular disabled community.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Back before Christmas, I was approached by a web developer
who was working on a project for NASA: an out-reach program geared
towards students at all levels (K-4 through “higher ed”) that essentially
encouraged students to use NASA Videos and create “remixes”.
Since NASA is clearly a Section 508 respondent, the preview videos on NASA’s
site required captioning (<i>Section 508 – b. Equivalent alternatives for
any multimedia presentation shall be synchronized with the presentation</i>),
but the developer was curious what to do regarding the videos being offered as
downloads. Somehow, she ended up IM’ing me at work and we had an
interesting exchange.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>After a bit of discussion, I proposed that they (NASA)
include numerous ‘pieces’ of digital data in a zip file, and some
of those bits would be the time-stamped transcript and ‘flat’
transcript, so that the students would have those pieces of the total ‘picture’
to use and remix at the same time that they mixed and mashed their visual
media. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>NASA agreed!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Late last week, the site was launched – a review page
can be found here: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/bmptxd">http://tinyurl.com/bmptxd</a>
. While a “How to Add Captioning” tutorial is still not available
(note to self – contact the contractor to discuss), “on-it”
educators at least now have the tools to take the ball and run with it: not
only will students be learning about space related topics, but the potential
for learning ‘multi-media production’ (which is clearly also part
of the bigger picture) that is inclusionary (through the addition of captions)
exists – students can be taught that adding captions is simply part of
the bigger production work-flow. The current ‘hard part’ –
getting the transcript – has been done already by NASA, so remixing and
adding ‘new’ caption files to the ‘new’ videos is relatively
easy and teachable.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Or at least, that is my hope. For those of you reading
this and who are involved in teaching, alt media production or a related endeavor,
I ask that maybe you help push that ball along as well. NASA has given us
a great starting point, but we, accessibility advocates, need to help highlight
that great start, and help other educators seize that start point and work it.
It would be *<b>SO COOL</b>* to start seeing these Student/NASA remixes on
YouTube with captions (YouTube now supports .srt caption files), so let’s
go do it!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>JF<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>See also: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>Stanford Captioning: <a
href="http://captioning.stanford.edu">http://captioning.stanford.edu</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>WebAIM - Web Captioning Overview: <a
href="http://webaim.org/techniques/captions/">http://webaim.org/techniques/captions/</a>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>YouTube - Add captions or subtitle tracks to
your videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/t/captions_about">http://www.youtube.com/t/captions_about</a>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>JW FLV Player (A sweet little FLASH based player
that scores incredibly high marks for accessibility supporting Closed Captions
*<b>AND</b>* descriptive audio): <a
href="http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/tutorials/Making-Video-Accessible">http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/tutorials/Making-Video-Accessible</a>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>Easy YouTube Player (Christian Heilmann’s remixed
YouTube player): <a href="http://icant.co.uk/easy-youtube/">http://icant.co.uk/easy-youtube/</a>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>Captioning Media for iTunes: <a
href="http://soap.stanford.edu/show.php?contentid=89">http://soap.stanford.edu/show.php?contentid=89</a>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>(Hey listees – have any other great resources?
Post them to the list!)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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