Making YouTube Videos Accessible through Closed Captioning and Community Contributions Emily Manson and Taylor Thomas April 23-24, 2018 Presentation Link: http://bit.ly/2u2ggec
Learning Objectives 1. Participants will learn how to caption videos on YouTube. 2. Participants will learn how to edit auto-generated captions on YouTube. 3. Participants will learn how to utilize Community Contributions to meet the needs of their students. 4. Participants will be give resources and taught strategies to help support district closed captioning initiatives.
Captioning Research 94% of high school teachers regularly use videos in the classroom 98.2% of all student find captioning helpful 72% of deaf and hard of hearing students reported that captions are used in the classroom sometimes, rarely or never Speech recognition software is only 70% accurate -3PlayMedia
These laws Require Captioning in the Classroom: Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1998
1 to 3 lines of text appear on the screen all at once Each line should not have more than 32 characters Text stays on the page for 3 to 7 seconds Timed to synchronize with the audio Does not cover up graphics or other essential video elements Use Helvetica medium font or similar ADA Compliance Tips Best practice for ADA compliant captions:
Adding Captions to YouTube Videos: How to turn on YouTube Captions: https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=u&video_id=2xvrgqmmlck Google s Resource Guide: https://support.google.com/youtueb/answer/2734796?hi=en YouTube Help Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcz-cxfxvk Check Out Taylor Thomas YouTube Channel at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/ucfgemmt4jh1qpxczduxvn 8Q
Community Contributions This feature allows the individuals viewing the uncaptioned video to add captions to the video. Video owner has the option to review themselves to be published. This is an option for teachers who create their own content or do Flipped-Classrooms or for Student resources developed: National Honor Society Students, future captionists. See Community Contribution Handouts
Using and Editing Youtube s Automatic Captioning You can use the automatic speech-to-text captions from YouTube and add or edit the captions on your own YouTube video. Here is how to do that...
Step 1 Upload your YouTube Video Once Uploaded, click on Edit>Subtitles/CC
Step 2 It may take several minutes for the autogenerated captions to load Or you can create your own
Step 3 Click on English (Automatic) OR Click on Add new subtitles or CC>Select English
Step 4 If creating your own: Click on create new subtitles or CC
Step 5 Fix the existing captions by listening and typing into the boxes on the left
Step 6 Fix the timing, by moving the handles under the video.
Step 7 Once done click on Save Changes Your captions will show up under English
That s all great, but what about all the videos that aren t mine?
You still have options... 1. Google the name of the video to see if a different user has uploaded the video with captions or if it exists somewhere else on the internet with captions 2. Check to see if the video has Creative Commons license. If it does, you can download it and caption it yourself. 3. Try Amara.org 4. Copyright Law Loophole 5. Use the list of Captioned Resources
Creative Commons License on YouTube Creative Commons license provide a standard way for content creators to grant someone else permission to use their work. YouTube allows users to mark their videos with Creative Commons CC BY license. https://support.google.com/youtube/answers/2797468?hl=en
Using Amara.org 1. Copy and Paste the video URL into the search bar on Amara.org 2. Sometimes the videos have already been captioned by someone else!
Quick Guide to Captioning on Amara Click on Subtitle Video
Copy and Paste the URL
Click on add a language Select English and English Click Continue
Add captions listening and typing into the boxes below the video *The shortcut keys are the best way to caption. When the whole video has been captioned click the yes start syncing button
Sync the video by listening to it and moving the handles. *Again the shortcut keys are going to be helpful here
Legal Exemption for Captioning Educational Content: If you are an educator, Section 107 of American copyright law gives legal exemption from copyright infringement for teaching. Meaning if you are using public YouTube videos for teaching, you can legally add captioning to it.
The best way to become skilled at captioning using YouTube or Amara is to play around with it until you feel comfortable. Give it a Try!
Resources: Taylor Thomas has a Google Drive folder captioning with resources: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0bxhugh9sk6hyoc1owwpmdkr VOE0?usp=sharing http://accessibility.umn.edu/
Thank You emily.manson@spps.org taylor.thomas@isd917.org