Video
Alternative content for video requires the use of synchronized captions for language spoken, and captions that describe important actions taking place on the screen. Most professional video editing software — such as Adobe Premier and Sonic’s Video Foundry — has captioning capabilities. Captioning can also be made using MagPie from the National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM). MagPie can be downloaded from the NCAM web site (http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie) at no cost.
For more on captioning, see Captions and Tools for Captioning and Describing Video.
Example
How to turn captions on in Windows Media Player:
- Windows Media Player 8: View > Now Playing Tools > Captions
- Windows Media Player 9: Play > Captions and Subtitles
Captioned Windows Media Video:
low bandwidth
(69K) | high bandwidth (2.6MB)
Captioned
QuickTime Video:
low bandwidth (805K) | high bandwidth
(9.4MB)
Transcript:
"My name is Dana Depree and I am here looking for my sister, Lainie. I have been here for four days in Florence now, and I have been looking for her like to the bone and I can’t find her anywhere. She came here last semester to study art."
Links
Captions
(http://www.webaim.org/techniques/captions)
