The Wonderful World of Accessible Media

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The Wonderful World of Accessible Media

• Captioning Basics and MAGpie

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The Wonderful World of Accessible Media

• Definitions
• Broad Overview
• Caption Exercise

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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

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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?

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Transcript

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

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Audio Description

• Definition
• Verbal description of the action taking place in
  a visual medium
• Used in Blind Justice

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Transcript or SAMI File

• Requires a ltSAMIgt tag to start and end the file.
• The ltSYNCgt tag controls when that particular
  caption should appear in milliseconds.

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4 Steps to Captioning Bliss

• Serving Technology
• ASX or linker file
• Equal access in delivery

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Linker or Playlist File

• This file tells Windows Media Player where the
  video file is and where the transcript or SAMI
  file is.
• Again its just a simple text file with tags
• Must start and end with an ltASXgt tag
• In the ltREFgt tag list the video and SAMI file
  separated by a ? Mark.

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4 Steps to Captioning Bliss

• Record or attain a video of an event
• Transcribe the event
• Sequence the video and transcript
• Serving Technology

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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 gt 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 gt
  Import text and finding the transcript
• Play the finance video by pressing F6 and press
  F9 when the appropriate event is being spoken