The Wonderful World of Accessible Media

1. The Wonderful World of Accessible Media Captioning Basics and MAGpie

2. The Wonderful World of Accessible Media • Definitions • Broad Overview • Caption Exercise

3. Captions • Definition • Written text representation of spoken words synchronized with the spoken words • What do they do? • Allow audio/video to be comprehended by individuals who do not have access to audio • Have been shown to help most people better understand/retain spoken information

4. Closed vs. Open Captioning • Definitions • Closed • Captions are not encoded directly in the video • Captions can be turned on or off as desired • Legal requirement for all TV sets larger than 13” • Open • Captions are encoded directly in the video • Captions can not be turned off • Used mainly in subtitled movies in theatres Which one is better?

5. Transcript • Definition • Written text representation of spoken words not synchronized with the spoken words • De facto in courtrooms

6. Audio Description • Definition • Verbal description of the action taking place in a visual medium • Used in “Blind Justice”

7. Nu ma Nu ma Example • Transcript vs. Captions • Are they equal legally? • Are they equal in effectiveness? • Are they equal in spirit? • Go to www.dso.ufl.edu/ela and click on Nu ma Transcript

8. 4 Steps to Captioning Bliss… • Record or attain a video of an event • Transcribe the event • Using traditional keyboard • Outsource to court reporter • Use voice dictation • Use 3rd party application (i.e. CART) • End up with a transcript

9. 4 Steps to Captioning Bliss… • Sequence the video and transcript • Time code • Text document or 3rd party application (i.e. MAGpie) • End up with a Time coded Transcript or SAMI/SMIL

10. Transcript or SAMI File • SAMI – Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange • Simply a text file • Consists of a tagged structure similar to HTML or web page files

11. Transcript or SAMI File • Requires a <SAMI> tag to start and end the file. • The <SYNC> tag controls when that particular caption should appear in milliseconds.

12. 4 Steps to Captioning Bliss… • Serving Technology • ASX or linker file • Equal access in delivery

13. Linker or Playlist File • This file tells Windows Media Player where the video file is and where the transcript or SAMI file is. • Again it’s just a simple text file with tags • Must start and end with an <ASX> tag • In the <REF> tag list the video and SAMI file separated by a ? Mark.

14. 4 Steps to Captioning Bliss… • Record or attain a video of an event • Transcribe the event • Sequence the video and transcript • Serving Technology

15. Captioning Exercise • Open a browser and navigate to www.dso.ufl.edu/ela • Follow the directions and download the Finance video and Finance transcript (open the transcript file in Word and then save it back to itself) • Open MAGpie and select File > New Project to create a new caption project • On the video tab click the Browse button and find the finance video and then click OK • Import the transcript by selecting Stream > Import text… and finding the transcript • Play the finance video by pressing F6 and press F9 when the appropriate event is being spoken