<div dir="ltr">Awesome, thanks everyone for your suggestions. I will archive these to provide to whomever we hire to fill our web accessibility specialist position.<div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 12:27 PM Joseph Polizzotto <<a href="mailto:jpolizzotto@berkeley.edu">jpolizzotto@berkeley.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Robert:<div><br></div><div>Another way to check for captions in a YouTube video is to use the DIY Captions Editor. You could do the following:</div><div><br></div><div>1. Copy the YouTube URL</div><div>2. Paste the URL in the text box at the DIYCaptions site: <a href="https://www.diycaptions.com/" target="_blank">https://www.diycaptions.com/</a></div><div>3.(Once the DIY Captions Editor interfaces open in a new tab) you can use these handy shortcut keys:</div><div>- F8: replay the audio that corresponds to the current caption block</div><div>- Down Arrow: read the current caption block</div><div>- Tab: move to the next caption block</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.<br></div><div><br></div><div>HTH,</div><div><br>Joseph</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 8:14 AM Robert Spangler <<a href="mailto:rspangler1@udayton.edu" target="_blank">rspangler1@udayton.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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!<div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 1:37 PM Lucy Greco <<a href="mailto:lgreco@berkeley.edu" target="_blank">lgreco@berkeley.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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 <br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_-3717735890819434893m_-5730459256391879446m_-2074263512123541439gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Lucia Greco<br>Web Accessibility Evangelist <br>IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration<br>University of California, Berkeley<br>(510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco<br><a href="http://webaccess.berkeley.edu" target="_blank">http://webaccess.berkeley.edu</a><br>Follow me on twitter @accessaces<br><br></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 3:42 PM Robert Spangler <<a href="mailto:rspangler1@udayton.edu" target="_blank">rspangler1@udayton.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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. 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