Steve (CUNY, Accessibility Specialist)
Video captioning is most time consuming part of accessibility:
Most of the jobs about accessibility for digital media are done in front-end or app design. Those are like done once apply everywhere job.
Video accessibility, especially captionings are video specific. Every new video need a reproduce
- Video accessibility is not only for people with eyesight problem:
- For people with listening problem: showing the content of dialog under the screen is also important
- For people with eyesight problem, contrast enhancing is important
- Video captioning usually shows in 3 forms:
- Adding vocal description and pause the play of video
- Adding caption description, the people with eyesight problem can read themselves with screen reader they carried with
- Adding vocal description during interval of video
- The general rule is to make the form of information as various as possible !
Lauren Race (Residence, ITP, NYU)
Video captioning is tiring and time consuming, huge burden
Referred to standard caption guideline, academic orgainization:
SigAccess
WebAIM
Have to keep pacing while shrink length
Netflex is good, HBO is bad
Netflex guidance is public available online
Prioritize description of the most relevant and important actions in the scene: WHO, WHAT, WHEN/WHERE, HOW
Dirk (Phd in NYU, Audio Description for Boardway)
Suggested readings:
An Introduction to Audio Description: A Practical Guide (2016)
The Visual Made Verbal: A Comprehensive Training Manual and Guide to the History and Applications of Audio Description (2014)
What to Captoin:
Microsoft: Object and Motion
Video translation vs Audio description
Audio description has length constrain
Netflex is a good resource, listen to it and see what they are looking for
Audio description vs narration:
Narration is only about action (But netflex emphasis on action?)
Audio description is more similar to Stage direction or Screen display
The importance of things to be captioned varied genre by genre
Word that is used is also important:
a plain description or rythemed
Translation part of and art
Two App to check out:
live describe
You describe:
pause between interval of dialogue
Regular interval, neot good but better than nothing
Amy (Ability NYU)
It is not impractical be careful to judge the doability of this mission
Certainly a lot of computer vision researchers has been doing video translation
What to caption is a great question:
Different: still debated, there are different opinions from different scholars
Different people (users) also have different preference
Some want specific information, some want character, some want environment, some want actions
Netflex and Amazon prime have services:
Get the public feed back from netflex and amazon services?
Some people complain about the description publicly, use their feedbacks
Think about the Director's perspective:
What are the points directors want to express?
What about casual videos?
Really hard and super sensitive topic (not technically):
Some scholars urge people with eye sight problem should get the same enjoyment with normal people
Some scholars set a Much lower bar, saying that having is much better than nothing, totally different approaches.
Treat them as equally as possible.
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