FACEBOOK STREAMS ALL NEED CAPTIONS – NOW

SOCIAL MEDIA IS SO IMPORTANT TO THE WORLD – FOR ALL OF US.

Social media online are where we read the NEWS, every day. They are how we keep in touch with  family and friends. It’s where most of us as citizens of any country want to learn more, think with others, and share information.

Information and communication is vital for healthy living. And with communication, good relationships get better.

FACEBOOK is one of the world’s most popular news media now. It also has a lot of entertainment. It also has educational events.

Yet the many videos and LIVE STREAMS now online, on Facebook and other places, mostly lack QUALITY CAPTIONING.

 

WHY CAPTION? There are so many good reasons. Only a few of them we’ll list again here:

1. Captions allow people to watch the stream or video even in quiet places, even in noisy places, even at work.

2. Millions and millions require captioning to have “equal communication access” and be included in all societies. Why? They don’t hear well, they are deaf, or they have one of many other conditions where reading captioning helps hugely (e.g. tinnitus, auditory processing differences, autism, more).

3. In the USA alone, there are about 50 million good people with hearing loss or deafness now. Good research suggests hearing loss affects one in five people everywhere, of all ages.

4. Facebook does have a system for anyone to add captioning to their videos. People must be encouraged (even required some of us say) to use it.

5. For Live Streams online, does Facebook make it easy? We need to find out soon! We are told by one provider that it’s as simple as using Streamtext online. If you have more info, please send it to us soon.

6. With captioning for any live streaming, you will have a ready record of the event for yourself and many others.

Yes, it costs some money for live captioning.  We’re all worth it. Your audience will grow, and you are worth it too. It’s not going to break any bank.

Just do it.

Here is a general information page from FB for live streaming. No mention of live captioning.

CCACAPTIONING.ORG has more information. Look under the Advocacy tag and read down. Send us your questions and comments please.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

access and inclusion of millions and millions with hearing loss or deafness

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Another Caption Technology of Interest

A few CCAC members seem very interested in this update also – hope it may help some reading here? If it does, please DO tell us – we really appreciate feedback.

See: https://www.maketecheasier.com/download-movie-subtitles-linux

What do you think? The title of this post says “another” because there is another good post here about how to do captioning – can you find it? We hope so.

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This is how we feel when we find QUALITY CAPTIONING on media and for a live event we would love to attend:

 

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How To: Create and Hard Code Subtitles

FROM ANDREA D, active CCAC provider member:

1. Free program called Video to Video burns in the subtitles during the conversion process.

2. My workflow, from unsubtitled video to final hardsubbed video, assuming I’m doing all the steps myself (and not outsourcing to get a .srt file) is:

1. Create/obtain a transcript
2. “Chunk” the transcript into individual subtitle screens, breaking lines at logical points
3. Upload the video to YouTube (set to “private” since I don’t actually want people watching it)
4. Upload the transcript to YouTube and let it run the autotiming
5. Download the autotimed subtitles in .srt format
6. Open the video and .srt file in Aegisub
7. Save the .srt file as an .ass file — this step is IMPORTANT because .ass supports a lot more formatting options than .srt
8. Go through the video with subtitles and correct any timing or transcription errors, and add any formatting (mostly adding italics or moving the subtitles around on the screen so they don’t cover up important on-screen information)
9. Convert the video to a subtitled video using Video to Video — you just load the video, tell it the output format, tell it what subtitle file to use, and it does the rest.

As far as the details of Aegisub, I learned most of what I do through trial and error. And http://docs.aegisub.org/manual/Editing_Subtitles#Supported_formats is a pretty good overview of some of the basics. I don’t use 99% of the features in Aegisub (it does things like karaoke timing and fancy animated subtitles for animé and translation), but for what I do… it works well. I use styles for position on screen, and to specify subtitle font and color options. I personally prefer yellow subtitles on a semi-transparent black box, like this:

Hope this is all helpful!

-Andrea Dietrich

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Great question on this topic and related * came into the CCAC Members’ forum the other day and there is additional input in the forum. Are you a CCAC member yet? You are invited now. CCACaptioning.org/join/ and email if you have any questions.

*…interested in learning some of the diverse approaches, software, etc., that people use to rip captions from videos for analysis, revision, experimentation, research, critique, etc.

and also asked for input re two closed captioning products for post-production captions.

1. EEG’s FilePro Scribe https://eegent.com/products

2. Telestream’s MacCaption or CaptionMake

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Theater Captioning -by Arlene

Hi everyone – this is an oldie but goodie, and it is a great record of history made for captioning. For access and inclusion! For equal communication for so many thousands who need “live event captioning.” Enjoy reading, and we hope all of you find theater captioning in your own areas.

Do you? In fact, one CCAC member right now is advocating strongly and well in his area (a Western state). Much to do. Tell us how CCAC might be able to help.

By Arlene in 2013 – Arlene is a CCAC member too.

Ask Arlene

Cochlear Implants, hearing loss and more! I carry an interesting perspective: someone who had normal hearing growing up, lost it all slowly as an adult, then regained it with cochlear implants. So I’m deaf, but I can hear -….

And then her blogpost.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

CAPTIONING ADVOCACY: Playbill from the first Open Captioned Broadway Performance – 1997!

I was sorting through my papers, and came across a stack of old Playbills.  These weren’t just any old Playbills – they were all from open captioned Broadway shows.  What is distinctive about these Playbills is that the Theatre Development Fund (TDF), which arranged the open captioning of these shows, always had an insert stapled into the Playbill, just under the large advertising centerfold.

I kept all the Playbills of the shows I had seen over the years because they represented a triumph – to be able to attend a Broadway show, without missing a word – a mission that I had spearheaded back in the 1990’s.  Although I hadn’t looked at these Playbills in years – they were stashed away in a box – I knew what was in that stack – the Playbill from the very first Open Captioned Broadway performance – Barrymore, a one-man show starring Christopher Plummer – on Wednesday, September 24, 1997.  And it turned out that I had saved two copies of this Playbill! Here’s what it looked like:

Playbill from the very first Open Captioned Broadway performance. It turned out that I saved more than just the Playbill – I also saved the ticket stub! And here is the insert from the Playbill, announcing that this is the very first open captioned Broadway performance. Special Playbill insert announcing the FIRST Open Captioned Broadway performance and the ticket stub – September 24, 1997. Historic! And here are the insert pages that explain about open captioning, the captioner, TDF, and the audience that benefits from captioning.

Program Notes about Captioning and the Captioner

Program Notes about TDF and the people who helped make this captioned performance happen. Note my name mentioned, recognizing my “advocacy and perseverence”!

This is such a significant find – as it documents a milestone in captioning advocacy and accommodations for people with hearing loss.  And it also represents a dream of my own – to be able to walk through Times Square late at night, carrying a Playbill – a souvenir of a wonderful theater experience – just like everyone else.

Additional documentation:
The New York Times ran an article about this event, entitled “Device Opens the Theatre to the Deaf” , published on September 16, 1997.

My second book, Listening Closely: A Journey to Bilateral Hearing(Charlesbridge/Imagine 2011), contains a brief history of captioned live theatre advocacy, on pages 24-25. Click here to access the Amazon website for the book, and click on the “Look Inside” feature to find the excerpt.

NOTE: Arlene’s blog site is at this link to read more there directly, thanks Arlene!

Go to http://arleneromoff.blogspot.com/2013/06/captioning-advocacy-playbill-from-first.html?m=1

CCAC GRANTS FOR LIVE CAPTIONING

Grants for Live Captioning. Care to learn more? Talk to the CCAC – CCACaptioning.org

Reminder that CCAC (not a captioning company), an official non-profit community of very active captioning activists and advocates, offers three sorts of Grants – check out the page of information. Others have found the small grant to be very useful and motivating. The goal is access and inclusion for those who don’t know much about any of this. See http://ccacaptioning.org/ccac-sponsorship-for-cart-a-new-captioning-advocacy-program/.

Please read the eligibility pointers, and take time to go down to the bottom of the long page too – for CCAC members there are grants for events that you deserve to enjoy. Best to all, LS, CCAC and CaptionMatchShow less

CCAC IS THE PLACE 2  4 CAPTIONING ADVOCACY

JOIN US

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BECOME PART OF THE SOLUTION – FOR YOURSELF, FOR OTHERS TOO!

LET’S TALK CAPTIONING!

CCAC ADVOCATES EVERY DAY – JANUARY UPDATE

GREETINGS ALL MEMBERS, FRIENDS, FOLLOWERS, AND FANS,

CCAC ADVOCATES EVERY DAY ON SOCIAL MEDIA – FACEBOOK, TWITTER, AND REGULARLY ON LINKEDIN.
WE HAVE A MOST INFORMATIVE DAILY PRIVATE MEMBERS’ FORUM ONLINE FOR NEWS, SUPPORT, ADVOCACY AND MORE. JOIN THE CCAC TO PARTICIPATE.
WE EMAIL WITH COLLEAGUES AND OTHERS ABOUT CAPTIONING ADVOCACY MATTERS.
WE MAINTAIN THE CCAC WEBPAGES – MANY – FOR RESOURCES FOR THE WORLD
WE MANAGE THIS BLOG ALSO

YOUR VOICE INVITED! CAPTIONING ADVOCACY IS A TASK THAT IS VALUABLE. YOUR IDEAS, QUESTIONS, AND ENERGIES WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE. MUCH ACCOMPLISHED, AND MUCH TO DO! QUALITY CAPTIONING IS MISSING IN TOO MANY PLACES.

JANUARY CCAC ADVOCACY SO FAR – SELECTED EXAMPLES
1. Members discussed a new video about the well-known wheelchair ACCESS symbol and saw that CAPTIONING was not mentioned among many symbols for many other disabilities. What to do?

2. A national human rights organization replied to the CCAC that they would add CC to their new video ASAP and to all future videos too.

3. The website of the first fabulous CAPTION STUDIES CONFERENCE is available online from August yet still needs CC added to a few presentations from those two days chock full of great information. We’re pushing to get that done, and would like to refer to the conference’s content for continuing and new captioning advocacy needed.

4. We continue to work on the design of the new CCAC website that will be more user-friendly and accessible. Stay tuned.

5. A useful document about how to talk to Congress was distributed to CCAC members and others. Many are concerned about potential changes across the USA and in other countries also that may damage or reduce resources for people with disability.

and much more…

CCACAPTIONING@GMAIL.COM
CCACAPTIONING.ORG Official Non-Profit Citizen Captioning Advocates. CCAC Mission-Inclusion of Quality Captioning Universally.
twitter.com/CCACaptioning, http://www.facebook.com/ccac.captioning, http://www.youtube.com/user/CCACORG/videos, http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Have-Deaf-Love-Captioning/dp/1515135799

Guest blogposts invited, welcome, and needed please. Email yours to us soon.
The CCAC webpages take donations of any size (using PayPal) if you care to support our efforts for an accessible and inclusive world.
New captioning advocacy suggestions also invited and welcome.
The time is now!

We aim to REV up this Captioning Blog!

Aiming to rev up this CCAC blog – and we invite your reading regularly, comments, discussion, polite agreements or disagreements, and very importantly too, your own guest blogposts please – all for the CCAC Mission:

INCLUSION OF QUALITY CAPTIONING UNIVERSALLY

ALL MEDIA EVERYPLACE AND LIVE EVENTS TOO

Your own submission for a blogpost can be:

a. short or longer

b. about any smaller detail about captioning added or missing

c. or a larger topic about captioning advocacy

d. some success story of your own

e. some frustrations encountered

f. some new ideas about how to advocate more

g. some discussion of one of the ongoing CCAC captioning advocacy projects (see website)

h. or ?

LET’S TALK CAPTIONING!

EMAIL YOUR BLOGPOST OR QUESTION TO CCACAPTIONING@gmail.com

READ OUR WEBSITE – CCACAPTIONING.ORG for ideas

CCAC – THE PLACE TO BE FOR CAPTIONING ADVOCACY

LOTS ACCOMPLISHED AND LOTS MORE TO DO

WITH YOU HELP.

Photo at the UN with Live Event Captioning on both screens. Vital. Important. Does your meeting have live captioning?

Welcome 2017 – A Captioning Year

Happy New Year to all reading! We welcome the new year, and we will welcome all of you who decide to help make 2017 a great year for captioning inclusion.

CCAC is now 7 years old. My oh my – time flies. Much accomplished, much more to do!

We invite you to read the CCAC webpages – soon. CCAC volunteers do so much. Offer so much for an all volunteer official non-profit. We live online. And you are needed now.

http://CCACAPTIONING.ORG

Teams will form soon for various good captioning advocacy projects. From revision of the CCAC website to guest blogposts here to social media and fundraising and the Grant Program and more….you are needed too.

EMAIL: CCACAPTIONING@GMAIL.COM