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<p>"Burned in" text can obstruct closed captions if you ever add them in, so they become hard to see, defeating the purpose of both.<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> athen-list <athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu> on behalf of chagnon@pubcom.com <chagnon@pubcom.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 2, 2018 6:22 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Access Technology Higher Education Network'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Athen] Checking for Captions</font>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Peter B wrote: “
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">But if a video has burned-in captions, there wouldn’t be a way for a screen reader user to detect those.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">That’s correct. Burned in captions are like photos with text in them. A T can’t determine which pixels create text letters and which create the background graphic. Always
best to keep text live, not “burned in” graphics or videos or any other form of graphical communication.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> athen-list <athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Bossley, Peter A.<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 2, 2018 5:17 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list@u.washington.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Athen] Checking for Captions</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">Many video players do have accessible caption toggles and some make the text accessible to screen readers. But if a video has burned-in captions, there wouldn’t
be a way for a screen reader user to detect those.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> athen-list <<a href="mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu">athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Robert Spangler<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 1, 2018 6:41 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network <<a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Athen] Checking for Captions</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.</p>
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