[ATcoord] Fw: [Accessibleit] [EXTERNAL] - Using CART captioner's transcript as video caption file

[Monica Olsson]

Hi ATCoords!

Sharing this conversation with you -- see below. Curious if others have ideas or thoughts about this situation.




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Monica M. Olsson (she/her/hers)

Policy Associate – Accessible IT Coordinator

Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges

molsson at sbctc.edu<mailto:molsson at sbctc.edu> • o: 360-704-3922 • c: 206-914-7187

sbctc.edu<https://www.sbctc.edu/> • Twitter: @SBCTCWashington<https://twitter.com/SBCTCWashington> • Facebook: @WASBCTC<https://www.facebook.com/wasbctc/>

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From: Accessibleit <accessibleit-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> on behalf of Hayman, Douglass <dhayman at olympic.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2021 7:50 AM
To: Promoting Accessible IT in Higher Education <accessibleit at u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: [Accessibleit] [EXTERNAL] - Using CART captioner's transcript as video caption file


Monica,



What I heard suggested a few years back at an all-day Accessing Higher Ground pre-conference session was to take the plain text file that will later be synched by YouTube and put the spaces in manually such as this before and after:



Before:



Here is some text that goes on and on.  When the captions get displayed they should be limited to 32 character long lines and only two lines appearing at a time.  Sometimes though we see 3 or more lines appearing and that is not good.  I’ve seen that with Panopto and it has a scroll thingy on the right hand side to be able to see the rest of the captions which needs to be improved upon.  Captioningkey has a number of recommendations for best practices.



After:



Here is some text that goes on and on.



When the captions get displayed they should be limited to 32 character long lines and only two lines appearing at a time.  Sometimes though we see 3 or more lines appearing and that is not good.



I’ve seen that with Panopto and it has a scroll thingy on the right hand side to be able to see the rest of the captions which needs to be improved upon.



Captioningkey has a number of recommendations for best practices.





Doing that spacing and then saving/publishing has sometimes improved things for me.  I look forward to what others suggest as maybe there is this killer app that helps with this process.



Doug Hayman

IT Accessibility Coordinator

Information Technology

Olympic College

dhayman at olympic.edu<mailto:dhayman at olympic.edu>

(360) 475-7632 (currently working remotely and don’t have access to this phone)







From: Accessibleit <accessibleit-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> On Behalf Of Monica Olsson
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2021 7:50 PM
To: accessibleit at uw.edu
Subject: [EXTERNAL] - [Accessibleit] Using CART captioner's transcript as video caption file



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Hello all,



Curious to hear about your video and caption editing techniques within the below scenario.



I have recorded an hour long Zoom meeting that included a live CART provider. The Audio Transcript file (VTT) that was available for download from my zoom cloud captured the CART captions with timestamps. However, when I uploaded the VTT file to YouTube editor along with the video file, I found that the timestamps on the caption file were off by 4 or 5 seconds off of the video timestamps. I quickly discovered that trying to edit each individual timestamp using the YouTube editor for an hour long video is quite laborious. Then, I used an online program that allowed me to strip the timestamps and formatting from the VTT file and upload it as a plain text file to YouTube.



The good news here is that YouTube was able to auto sync the captions with the video, but I noticed that there are several moments in the video when there’s more than two lines of text on the screen. So, then I went in and started editing the actual text, which again, is a lot of effort for a one hour video.



Is there an easier way to get this done? I think the captions done by CART are accurate enough and would like to use them without having to pay for postproduction captioning since I’ve already paid for CART.



What am I missing? Thanks!





[Title: SBCTC logo - Description: Compass]Monica M. Olsson (she/her/hers)

Policy Associate – Accessible IT Coordinator

Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges

molsson at sbctc.edu<mailto:molsson at sbctc.edu> • o: 360-704-3922 • c: 206-914-7187

sbctc.edu<https://www.sbctc.edu/> • Twitter: @SBCTCWashington<https://twitter.com/SBCTCWashington> • Facebook: @WASBCTC<https://www.facebook.com/wasbctc/>


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