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Accessible video and video descriptions (self.Blind)
submitted 8y ago by brewinreview
Hi all,
I'm doing some research on making video more accessible for the vision impaired. The company I'm working for produces training videos and we also always supply a transcription of the video. Screen readers seem to have no problem with the transcriptions.
A client wants to know if there's an easy way to make a screen reader see or read text that appears in the video. For example, if there's text in the video that says "Hello world!" the screen reader would read this.
Of course a screen reader isn't going to see that automatically. I've done some research and there appears to be some (slightly complicated) ways similar to subtitle files.
Have any of you on this board encountered a video that's able to be read by a screen reader? I'm just looking for possibilities at the moment before I think about implementation.
Thanks.
I'm doing some research on making video more accessible for the vision impaired. The company I'm working for produces training videos and we also always supply a transcription of the video. Screen readers seem to have no problem with the transcriptions.
A client wants to know if there's an easy way to make a screen reader see or read text that appears in the video. For example, if there's text in the video that says "Hello world!" the screen reader would read this.
Of course a screen reader isn't going to see that automatically. I've done some research and there appears to be some (slightly complicated) ways similar to subtitle files.
Have any of you on this board encountered a video that's able to be read by a screen reader? I'm just looking for possibilities at the moment before I think about implementation.
Thanks.
ArtisticProgrammer 2 points
Can you not format a subtitle file so it can be read by a Braille machine? Shouldn't be too hard to do.
brewinreview [OP] 1 points
That was one option (kind of) that I was looking at. I saw something regarding formatting subtitles (or a different but similar file) to either go to Braille or prompt the screen reader to read certain descriptions at certain times within the video.
It might be an option I investigate further unless there's some "standard" and/or common that people do.
It might be an option I investigate further unless there's some "standard" and/or common that people do.
jage9 1 points
Doesn't Youtube's caption system have an API? Then again, the captions may be exactly the opposite of what you want to convey since that stuff is already spoken.
Also, it's not exactly the same thing, but you may be interested in a research project/website called $1 which seeks to add audio descriptions to Youtube vids. Would be another way to convey the same info.
Also, it's not exactly the same thing, but you may be interested in a research project/website called $1 which seeks to add audio descriptions to Youtube vids. Would be another way to convey the same info.
johnnytai 1 points
I've used a plug-in before that allowed the subtitle to be read using whatever sapi's installed on your PC. Can't remember the name though for the life of me...it was about 6 years ago, and I didn't really used it that much since it was really a pain in the behind to have to look for subtitle files for movies I wanted to watch.
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