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<div>Wow, John -- that's fantastic! Congratulations on your
success in helping make this possible. I will definitely check
it out and pass it along.</div>
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<div>- Shelley Haven</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>All,</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>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.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>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.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>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.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>NASA agreed!</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>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.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>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!</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Thanks!</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>JF</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>See also:</blockquote>
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cite>· Stanford
Captioning: <a
href="http://captioning.stanford.edu">http://captioning.stanford.edu</a
></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite>· WebAIM - Web
Captioning Overview: <a
href="http://webaim.org/techniques/captions/"
>http://webaim.org/techniques/captions/</a></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite>· 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></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite>· 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-Accessib<span
></span>le</a></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite>· Easy YouTube
Player (Christian Heilmann's remixed YouTube player): <a
href="http://icant.co.uk/easy-youtube/"
>http://icant.co.uk/easy-youtube/</a></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite>· Captioning
Media for iTunes: <a
href="http://soap.stanford.edu/show.php?contentid=89"
>http://soap.stanford.edu/show.php?contentid=89</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>(Hey listees - have any other great
resources? Post them to the list!)</blockquote>
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