PUBLIC MARKS with tags accessibilité & video

The new caption editor function, developed by a Google intern and his mentor, allows users to correct automatic captions within the YouTube website.

The Easy YouTube caption creator is designed to make it very simple to create a caption text file (.sub format) that you can then add to YouTube video files that you have uploaded.

When creating transcripts for videos, adding details about the setting, actions and such may be beneficial to those relying solely on the transcript. Once the spoken word is captured, that text can be used to caption the video (again, essential for accessibility) and repurposed to create products in other formats. Definitely a win-win scenario!

Recordings of screen readers using widgets with and without WAI-ARIA can be a good educational resource for why ARIA is important to accessibility. There aren’t many out there, but here’s what I found.

Transcription is the process of taking the videotape and making a verbatim ASCII file of the program so that the text is ready to put into the captioning software.