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Originally Posted by Banjo
I don't know if JAWS is capable of reading captions, but the captions aren't burnt onto the video. It's a text file formatted in SubRip. The extension for SubRip is srt. Hope you'll be able to read the captions from my vlog entries.
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If your concerned about UAs (User Agents), such as screen readers, or dynamic braille displays, being able to diplay closed captions, create a collated text transcript. Here's an example of a collated text transcript of a clip from "The Lion King" (available at [DVS]). Note that the Describer is providing the auditory description of the video track and that the description has been integrated into the transcript.
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Simba: Yeah!
Describer: Simba races outside, followed by his parents. Sarabi smiles and nudges Simba gently toward his father. The two sit side-by-side, watching the golden sunrise.
Mufasa: Look Simba, everything the light touches is our kingdom.
Simba: Wow.
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Collated text transcripts allow access by people with both visual and hearing disabilities. They also provide everyone with the ability to
index and search for information contained in audio/visual materials. Collated text transcripts include spoken dialogue as well as any other significant sounds including on-screen and off-screen sounds, music, laughter, applause, etc. In other words, all of the text that appears in captions as well as all of the descriptions provided in the auditory description.
Creating collated text isn't much harder than creating closed captions. Imagine your Hearing friend is watching a video, and you're talking to your Hearing friend over the phone, with IP-Relay. Imagine that the relay operator can hear the audio, but your friend has to describe the video. Now imagine you save the conversation on your computer and then edit it for any mistakes. That's collated text.
You can write collated text into your HTML easily. Just include it between the EMBED tags.
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<EMBED style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-6791975927169202422&hl=en-CA" flashvars="&subtitle=on">
Description: A setting of parkbench against a brickwall pans right. The sign above reads, "Banjo's World Vlog No. 003". Now, in a dark room, Banjo appears, using American Sign Language.
Caption: Hello, I'm Banjo aka Paul.
</EMBED>
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I know the video goes on, but I wasn't about to create a whole transcript for you.
