CAPTIONING VIDEOS
FOR YOUTUBE
Marisol Miranda, Beth Coombs
We Will Cover
 YouTube
 Uploading a video
 Accessibility issues
 Captioning videos for YouTube
 YouAbility
What is YouTube?
 A place to find all kinds of videos
 Thousands of videos on different topics
 Upload and share videos
 Social media resource
 Learning space
(access using computer, mobile devices, etc)
Accessibility Issues
 There are so many different videos that you might
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be confused – LD
Often inaccessible to people who are Deaf
Color contrasts difficult for LD & VI
Audio can be unclear
Often lack description of the video for the blind and
visually impaired
Best Formats for YouTube
Video Formats
 MP4
 WMV
 MOV
 MPG
 AVI
 Duration: No longer than 15 minutes
 No larger than 2 GB size.
Transcriptions vs. Captions
TRANSCRIPTION
CAPTION
Getting Ready
 You have to make a video
 You need a transcription of the spoken content of
the video
 There’s no way to add video descriptions, therefore
the Narrator should describe important actions
thus incorporating it into the video
 DO NOT include quiet pauses in the audio
Uploading a Video to YouTube
 Create an account
 Sign In
Select the Video
 Click on the upload Button
 Search for it on your hard drive
 Click on the “Upload Now” button
 Autoshare options (Facebook, Twitter, Reader, etc.)
Video Setting
 Viewer
information
about the
video
 Viewer
response to
the video
Video Sharing Options
Uploaded Video
 There will be thumbnails of your videos including titles
 You’ll have the opportunity to edit
YouTube
Captioning Options
 Upload transcript by selecting file from your hard drive
 Make sure you choose transcript file (English only)
 It must be a .txt file
Hint for Uploading Transcription
to YouTube
Fixing Transcription Errors #1
 Go to the videos tag, subtitles and download
 It will be named caption.sbv
Fixing Transcription Errors #2
 After downloading
the file it will be an
.sbv
 Open it with
notepad
 Copy it into
Microsoft word to
format it if needed
YouTube
Captioning Options
 Upload captions already with the time codes
 Upload the transcript as an .txt file (English only)
Additional Points on
Captioning #1
 The video and the captions are separate files that
are synchronized in the site
 Resize the captions font
 The videos can transcribed in different languages
 As they are closed captions, they can be turned on
or off
Additional Points on
Captioning #2
 Mobile Technology - video will often only display
open captions
 There are many authoring tools available for
adding captions before uploading to YouTube
 The transcript can only be downloaded by the
video owner
YouAbility on YouTube
YouAbility
http://youtube.com/youability
YouAbility by EASI
 A Channel where anyone can learn about creating
accessible content
 Providing reliable resources on Accessible
Information Technology
 Support the Deaf community by uploading
captioned videos
Summary
 YouTube videos can be inserted or embedded into
other Web pages
 Content must be understandable visually and
audibly
 Text in captioned videos can be found by search
engines
 All YouTube videos should be captioned – they
aren’t but in the future……..
 YouTube & Google provides a way to bridge the
information divide, it’s not perfect but…….
Thank you!
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