Video Accessibility
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Video Accessibility Doug Haymandhayman Jason Smithjsmith32 Terrill Thompsontft
Who benefits from video accessibility? • People who are Deaf • People who are Blind • People who are DeafBlind Slow or no Internet • People who don’t use a mouse • People who need to find content quickly • English is a second language • People unable to turn on audio
Captions: Overview • Captions are text, synchronized with the video • They capture spoken words & important sounds • Closed captions = can be toggled on/off • Open captions = burned into the video, always on • Subtitles = foreign language (may or may not include important sounds)
Caption files (e.g., SRT, VTT) • WEBVTT • 00:00:11.000 --> 00:00:18.000 How do you change the world? It starts with a single step. • 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:25.500You don’t have to know what the destination looks like. • 00:00:25.501 --> 00:00:33.000 • You just have to have the courage to take the first step.
Agenda • 3PlayMedia contract + Free money (Doug) • Captioning • YouTube (Doug) • Panopto (Jason) • Canvas (Jason) • Zoom (Jason) • Audio Description (Terrill) • Accessible Media Players (Terrill)
YouTube captions overview • Can import professionally made caption files • Can create captions oneself using their tools • Can’t rely upon the automatic speech recognition (ASR) to fully meet the standards
Method 1: upload a file • Add a transcript file and have it time synchronized to the video • Add a subtitle file such as a .srt file created by a caption creation company like 3Play Media.
Method 2: Transcribe & autosync. Type what you hear then set timings
Method 3: Create New Subtitle or Closed Caption. Edit if mostly accurate or delete and create from scratch
Best Practices • Caption the final draft • Include the name of the speaker • Display text with enough time to read • Automated Speech Recognition always needs to be edited
DRS Provides Captioning for Students • Student works directly with DRS • DRS captions course content • Instructor works with DRS, if needed • http://depts.washington.edu/uwdrs/ • 011 Mary Gates
Panopto’s Automatic Speech Recognition Feature • Opt-in Automatic Speech Recognition • Accuracy may vary and is not an official accommodation • Enable ASR using the Panopto video editor • Edit captions using the Panopto video editor
Upload Caption File • Create VTT or SRT caption file • Download caption file from Panopto video • Upload to Panopto video
Options for Zoom Captions • Real-time captions of meeting or webinar • Hire a caption vendor or type your own captions • Zoom Cloud Recording supports Automated Speech Recognition • Edit the ASR in the Zoom cloud recording
What is Audio Description? • A separate track that describes key visual content; only necessary if visual content is not already accessible via the audio track • Many ways to provide audio description: • A separate described version of the video • Same video, different audio track (requires supporting media player) • Same video, text-based description in VTT, read aloud by synthesized speech (requires supporting media player)
Remember VTT? • WEBVTT • 00:00:01.000 --> 00:04:00.000 Words appear: #BESTOFUW 2016 • 00:00:04.001 --> 00:00:10.000The Nobel medal next to David J. Thouless, 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics • 00:00:10.001 --> 00:00:15.000 • With President Obama, Mary Claire King, National Medal of Science
An accessible media player… • Supports captions • Supports audio description • Can be operated without a mouse
Able Player • https://ableplayer.github.io/ableplayer • Free, open source HTML5 media player • Developed and maintained at the UW • By far, the most accessible media player on Earth • Coming soon: • WordPress Plugin • Drupal 8 module
For more on video accessibility • Making Videos Accessible (UW) • UW Captioning Service Application