CCAC CARES – AIR TRAVEL ACCESS ADVOCACY FLYING AGAIN

CCAC HAS BEEN ADVOCATING FOR AIR TRAVEL ACCESS WITH CAPTIONING SINCE 2010, along with many others. The TRANSPORTATION advocacy page on the CCAC web under “Resources” has a lot more current information, the Flyer, and your invitation to help via the CCAC – or however you like to advocate! Let’s see this FLY again. Access for all.

JOIN the TEAM for this project now. The Flyer needs an update, and yes, our advocacy is broader than one airline for on-board entertainment. We include asking for airport communication access – announcements about boarding by text, and announcements in the air also, by text, all of them. Email CCACaptioning@gmail.com to join the team – your voices needed.

Read http://ccacaptioning.org/captioning-transportation/

Updates:

CCAC TEAM FOR AIR TRAVEL ACCESS ready to brainstorm about next steps. New team meeting next week, real time, online. You’re invited.

Letter to DOT in March 2010 on the Transportation advocacy page, see link above.

Spreadsheet can be found on same page with information on many airlines that do or don’t caption.  Will publish updates, with your input too.  (Thanks Rachel!)

CCAC Flyer here using Senator Harkin’s proposed legislation. Next step? New Congressional interest?  Which Congressperson will you talk to?

On Twitter – Nyle DiMarco – deaf model – complained to American Airlines. The response from AA saying, essentially, they don’t do captioning – not right and getting lots of attention this week, thanks to @nyledimarco!

On Twitter – Also a new hashtag called #deafintheair – good to follow it – nice to see this new advocacy too!

Next steps?

NAD and HLAA and the “beltway” groups no doubt will talk to the US Department of Transportation again soon. CCAC listening, here to help.

There are suggestions that airlines will drag on this and expect that folks will bring their own downloads with captioning. Not easy for many to do! As long as we pay the same prices, we ask for and deserve equal communication access.

#CAPTIONTHEWORLD

CCACAPTIONING.ORG – unique official non-profit for Captioning Advocacy – Captions are the world’s language (not only for deaf/hoh). CCAC — citizen volunteers, organization friends, and others who support the Mission. Join us.

If you wish to contact the US DOT, here’s info from CCAC member Don’s own blog. “…

U.S. Department of Transportation Office of Aviation Enforcement and Proceedings Aviation Consumer Protection Division 1200 New Jersey Ave, SE Attn: C-75-D Washington, DC 20590 United States Phone: (202) 366-2220 TTY/Assistive Device: (202) 366-0511 Business Hours: 8:30am-5:00pm ET, M-F Note from DOT:   The complainant should provide: His or her full name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, if any, and the name of the party who suffered the alleged discriminatory conduct, if other than the person submitting the complaint; The name of the air carrier involved in the incident, as well as the date of the incident, the place where it occurred and the flight number(s) involved; A detailed description of the incident that you believe constituted discriminatory action, including names of those involved (or a description of the individuals) and names of any witnesses; and Any other information you believe might be helpful in supporting your complaint. Please send copies (not originals) of any pertinent documents you have relating to the incident (e.g., ticket, boarding passes, itinerary sheets, and correspondence to and from the carrier involved).

The implementation of Closed Captioning in in-flight entertainment (IFE) systems continues to be a major issue.  DOT is expected to weigh in on the matter after December 2015.”

 

 

 

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GIVING THANKS

Dear CCAC Members, Subscribers, Friends, Fans, Followers,

Tomorrow is a huge national holiday in the USA – the favorite of many. Wherever you are, whatever you’ll be doing this week, we want to say a big thank you for:

being a member or fan of the CCAC – being with us! new members, say hello soon; longer time members – let us hear from you soon; let’s build our numbers, invite others, vital;

for the three Captioning Advocacy Teams that are moving forward – GOVERNMENT MEETINGS, MEDIA, and CAPTIONS CAPTURE THE VOTES, and for AIR TRAVEL ACCESS aiming to begin discussions soon; other Teams welcome – volunteer to be a co-leader and let’s talk!

to our Sponsors during these six years, and the two this year, ECAPTIONS.COM AND NVRA.ORG

to volunteers who have helped CCAC with so many things behind the scenes; you know who you are;

to everyone and every group, in CCAC or outside of CCAC, who ASKS for any Captioning they need;

to Providers who create our language

to new Members and Donors whose contributions are valuable, any size

Good things!

Lauren

CCACAPTIONING.ORG

CCACAPTIONING@GMAIL.COM

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Twitter https://twitter.com/CCACaptioning

FB https://www.facebook.com/ccac.captioning

CCAC also uses LinkedIn and GooglePlus from time to time.

CCAC YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/CCACORG/videos

Book http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Have-Deaf-Love-Captioning/dp/1515135799

CCAC Talks To YouTube/Google About Quality CC

(See Follow Up Blogpost on December 13)

CCAC Members and Friends,

Here’s a letter that two of our volunteers sent to YouTube/Google last week. It’s one part of CCAC continuing MEDIA captioning advocacy. YT/Google acknowledged it today, saying it was sent to the team…

We wrote to them again due to their newly-launched “community” (crowd) captioning feature. It looks awkward and not coordinated with what may be easier and faster quality captioning systems they already have in place for videos.

The goal is that all video content (huge, as you know, on YT) and everyplace online has quality captioning, when published. Access and inclusion with equal communication access, from day one, we believe that is a fundamental human right for mega-millions globally.

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Letter:

Hello …

To follow up on an earlier question (see below), …(we have) have put down some thoughts for you and Google/YouTube to consider.

Captioning is our language – and the world’s language too.

Regarding the newest captioning feature from YouTube – fan-based community captioning – we offer the following suggestions we hope will be useful.

Issue 1: Enable these features by default

Content owners have to manually navigate through a number of layers to their community settings and turn this feature on.

CCAC suggests that this should be always ON by default and that you enable the channel owners to turn it off instead.

Issue 2: Starting from scratch

YouTube expects fans to transcribe the whole thing from scratch / ground zero.

Since many content creators already have a transcript in some shape or form – such as a script or production running sheet etc, a more efficient workflow is to source an accurate transcript first and then use Google’s voice recognition technology to auto-sync it into a caption file.

But as far as the CCAC can see, there’s no way for fans to upload an accurate transcript in this manner (or a finished caption / subtitle file).

Issue 3: There’s very little scope for collaboration

Fans are expected to work in independent silos and there doesn’t seem to be any ways to work together with other fans.

For longer videos, it would be far more efficient if there was ways to break them down into smaller, more manageable chunks that could be performed by different fans simultaneously.

Issue 4: There appears to be no way to fix the automatic machine generated cc.

CCAC suggests that for videos of shorter duration and with good quality audio, editing to correct the machine cc is a good way to create good quality captions.

Our group would like to help in any way we can to beta test this, support your efforts, and we welcome your interest and support for the CCAC.

Let’s talk further.

Lauren and Michael

http://CCACAPTIONING.ORG We Ask for Quality Captioning Universally. #CaptiontheWorld. Volunteer captioning advocates internationally, official 501(c)3 non-profit, join us.

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Special thanks to CCAC member Michael Lockrey for his dedication to quality captioning issues, and all the volunteer time he donates to CCAC and others.

Readers here – we agree with their first reply to us, i.e. that video content owners, ideally, need to see and approve the CC before publication, yet this may take months or never happen unless Google/YT leads the way and pushes it ON by default – do it or the video will not be published. To use quality CC, any content provider can find low cost or free systems on the YT pages – it’s the right thing to do. Without quality CC, we have ramps for communications that are full of dangerous gaps.

CCAC Teams Welcome Volunteers

Feel like DOING something useful for Captioning inclusion? Join a CCAC Team! Meet others, add your ideas and energy for the mission – Inclusion of Captioning Advocacy Universally.

All MEDIA and LIVE EVENTS need quality Captioning, our language, the world’s language.

Live Events are often now streamed online – not only webinars, also conferences, other meetings. Access via quality captioning for all of these please  – ask, educate, raise awareness and ask again.

CCAC Teams each have a focus – one of the several ongoing (or new) CCAC CAPS – captioning advocacy projects. See http://CCACaptioning.org/advocacy for this list of current CAPS.

Please volunteer soon!

Three teams are using Google Hangouts (GH) now – the chat system. Sometimes the whole team is there, live, real time, and sometimes only a few, or even one person who adds her or his input after reading the discussion. It works! Using a gmail address is best.

Interested? Hope so! Email CCACaptioning@gmail.com

 

If I Can, So Can You! Adding a Caption File Report

This is not a technical workflow blogpost. See just prior one for that please. This is just to let you know that today I added a caption file to a video that I uploaded to the CCAC YouTube Channel (borrowed from a good friend, AXSChat.com).

I’m deafened. I cannot create the transcript nor can I convert it to a subtitle file. I am pretty “non-techie” even though I’ve been using the Internet for – geesh – a long time.

However, this AXSChat video already had the transcript and pretty good CC. So, a friend converted the text to the subtitle file for me, and then “held my hand” so that I finally found how to do that on the YouTube (Google) webpage. It’s not totally user-friendly, but what is? Smile please.

Here’s the link to the CCAC YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/CCACORG/videos

And here’s the link to the video we wanted to publish there – it’s a long one. Watch it all or any part of it. Use it. Advocate! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGhHs6cVoF4

Turn On the Captions!

And if you have not yet JOINED the CCAC, please do so today. Good time to treat yourself to our user-friendly community!

http://CCACaptioning.org/join

CCACaptioning@gmail.com

THANKS again to the team at AXSChat.com also.

DIY VIDEO CAPTIONING – READ THIS

CCAC OFFERS THIS DOCUMENT FOR ANYONE TO LEARN MORE – CCAC are all volunteers and this is one of many resources we aim to keep updated. Read over more information on the CCAC website too, e.g. the page called RESOURCES.

THE NEW DOCUMENT –

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mGsG6SIiedeWyrlLxaklIMyUEsvQ-gDu-0BAy2dKcJo/edit?usp=sharing

CREATE AN ACCESSIBLE WORLD WITH QUALITY CAPTIONING UNIVERSALLY

IF YOU NEED HELP – CCAC volunteers available – especially if you JOIN the CCAC – easy to do – http://CCACaptioning.org/join

ANY QUESTIONS?

CCAC Special New Member Offer!

HEAR THIS – JOIN THE CCAC TODAY! MEMBERSHIP DRIVE IN PROGRESS. JOIN BEFORE END OF 2015 AND GET ANY SHORT VIDEO YOU SELECT OR MAKE CAPTIONED BY CCAC VOLUTEER. WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

JOIN from this page: http://ccacaptioning.org/join/

 

CCAC will be SIX years old this December 2015. Many wonderful accomplishments. Much more to do. Please read the CCAC webpages (e.g. the Advocacy page) and get involved soon.

Any questions?

Keep Calm and Ask for Captioning!

BENEFITS OF JOINING US INCLUDE:

The CCAC Members’ Only Forum  – offer and get ideas and advice about almost any aspect of captioning.

Meet others who share variety of similar concerns about access and inclusion.

Become eligible to apply for Free Live Event Captioning for yourself!

First notices about many sorts of captioning news – media, live, technologies, more.

Make good new connections for work, advocacy, and more….

Know you support citizen volunteers who care about equal communication access with captioning.

Having a place where members’ voices count.

CCACaptioning@gmail.com

CCAC Mission  – All Media and Live Events to have Quality Captioning.

CCAC – Place 2 B 4 Captioning Advocacy

WE ARE THE CCAC – CAPTIONING ADVOCATES – JOIN TODAY

HEAR THIS: MEET a few of the many CCAC members who advocate, educate, and raise awareness about the important mission – vital – required! INCLUSION OF QUALITY CAPTIONING UNIVERSALLY.

THE LINK is a short new CCAC movie (View it on laptop or desktop please. Mobile phones may show images only without caption for each image.)

New Movie: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipONaPr6feW4TwyBvPnCP-7Dj485XyvHZjJZ7l36uytTqzqhOe4hYb8ETgY6Ads5ig?key=cmUzb1BJM2RKUmdjenR0eTF0TDFGNk5WV2xVZWJ3

CCAC MEMBERSHIP DRIVE IN PROGRESS. JOIN BEFORE END OF 2015 AND GET ANY SHORT VIDEO YOU SELECT OR MAKE YOURSELF CAPTIONED BY CCAC VOLUNTEER. WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

JOIN from this page: http://ccacaptioning.org/join/

(For the movie,  we are working on a new edition to make the white captioning more user-friendly. Please be patient, we are volunteers working on a low budget. Care to make a significant contribution? Time, energy, money, all welcome! Donate via PayPal on the CCAC web, CCACaptioning.org).

CCAC will be SIX years old this December 2015. Many wonderful accomplishments. Much more to do. Please read the CCAC webpages (e.g. the Advocacy page) and get involved soon.

Any questions?

Keep Calm and Ask for Captioning!

CCAC Mission  – Inclusion of Quality Captioning Universally.

i.e. All Media and Live Events to have Quality Captioning.

CCAC – Place 2 B 4 Captioning Advocacy

http://CCACaptioning.org – join today! Read more about CCAC Teams and Caps! (Captioning advocacy projects).

Benefits of joining include:

The CCAC Members’ Only Forum  – offer and get ideas and advice about almost any aspect of captioning.

Meet others who share variety of similar concerns about access and inclusion.

Become eligible to apply for Free Live Event Captioning for yourself!

First notices about many sorts of captioning news – media, live, technologies, more.

Make good new connections for work, advocacy, and more….

Know you support citizen volunteers who care about equal communication access with captioning.

Having a place where members’ voices count.

CCACaptioning@gmail.com

Good Citizenship – All About Access and Inclusion – New Video from EU

CCAC welcomes this new video! Part of it matches the CCAC campaign called Captions Capture the Votes.

Let’s all find a way to talk about this together – from all parts of the world.

CCACaptioning.org

CCACaptioning@gmail.com

CAPTIONS FOR HEARING FOLKS TOO!

HEARING PEOPLE TOO USE QUALITY CC ON MEDIA ALL THE TIME.

For example, when at work they play a video and no sound – they can often keep working and also read the captions.

In noisy rooms anyplace.

In any situation where the acoustics are awful – where actors mumble – when a transcript is going to be very handy to keep for minutes, records, etc.

What’s your example?

Here’s a video sent to the CCAC to illustrate quality CC – fortunately, there are many good examples these days, while unfortunately, there are too many videos using only machine (automatic) cc or none!

Any questions?

CCACaptioning@gmail.com

http://CCACaptioning.org – join today!