Hi, Tim --

Not to threadjack, but here goes:  just in the past few days the topic of video captioning and accessibility has come up for our digital collections.  Are you aware of any resources for best accessibility practices concerning subtitle formats and embedding techniques for videos?  We're looking for technical guidelines that can be applied when transcoding a video to mp4 (h.264 + wav in an mp4 container, for example).

Thanks,

-- Scott

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Scott Prater
Digital Library Architect
UW Digital Collections Center
University of Wisconsin - Madison


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From: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Tim McGeary
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2022 12:40 PM
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A friendly reminder and encouragement: if you are publishing audio / video as an official service to the public from the university context, automated captioning / transcriptions are not (yet) sufficient to meet accessibility requirements set by the US Dept of Education. It isn't that you cannot use automated tools, but it is important and necessary that human quality control is applied afterwards.

Thank you for aiming for full accessibility!

Cheers,
Tim

Tim McGeary

Associate University Librarian for Digital Strategies and Technology

Duke University Libraries

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From: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2022 1:19 PM
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Subject: [CODE4LIB] video to text

Do you know of a video to text applications? I colleague asked me:

  I have four video recordings of conference sessions and wonder if
  there is a tool or technology that will help me transcribe these
  into the written word?

Do y'all have any suggestions or experience in this regard?

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Eric Morgan
University of Notre Dame