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Go Beyond TV:Captioning and Video Description as Teaching Tools for the DVD and Multimedia Environment
OSEP Conference 07.16.07: ET Grants: H327C060013 & H327C060014
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Purpose of Today• Introduce You to CaptionMax• Demonstrate What CaptionMax is
Doing with the Emerging Technologies Grants
• Outreach Efforts• Research Opportunities
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CaptionMax• Founded 1993, privately held• Video description - 2003• Media accessibility is all we do• Goal: Level the educational playing
field
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Media Accessibility Today:
• What they are• FCC Rules• Limitations
Closed Captions
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Closed Captions – FCC Rules
• 2006: all new programming• 2008: 75% of anything produced
before 1998• Spanish: 2010 and 2012
respectively• Broadcast Only
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Closed Captions - Limitations
• Viewer has little control over settings
• Captioning signals can interfere with each other
• Not all TVs are capable of reading all captioning signals
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Media Accessibility Today:
• When it is used, features• FCC Rules
– No requirements
• Limitations– Timing– Menu option hard to find – Shares channel with Spanish translations
Video Description
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2006 Emerging Technology Grants• CaptionMax won 2 of 3 available awards• Funding the development of
accessibility for emerging technologies• 5 year project, in year 1 now• 5 year goal: Standard part of
educational landscape
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Our Project: • Go beyond standard captioning
and description practices• Collaboration with media suppliers• DCMP as distribution partner• Rely on CAB for feedback• NOT a research grant
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Going Beyond the Standard
• New technologies create new opportunities
• Multiple tracks• Interactivity• User options• Scheduling• Flexible interface
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Phase One: DVD
• Inexpensive and widely available format
• Familiar technology• Schools have capacity to use• DCMP can deliver files via web
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DVD Menu Accessibility• Auto-play spoken menu• Voiced navigation instructions • Large type and high-contrast
coloring• CaptionMax as DVD author• Accessibility is the first option
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Spoken Menus
• Action verbs describe visual cues “Go back to the chapter menu”
• Simple, direct menu structure
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Any questions at this point?
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DVD Subtitles
• Traditionally limited to dialog
• Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (SDH)
• Activated via on-screen menu
• Any font, color, background
• Up to 32 subtitle streams
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Caption/Subtitle Choices
• Verbatim or edited for slower reading
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Caption/Subtitle Choices
• Choose larger or smaller text
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Caption/Subtitle Choices
• Less obtrusive subtitles
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Caption/Subtitle Choices
• High- contrast subtitles
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Caption/Subtitle Advanced Features• Clickable words/phrases
– Identified by highlight and sound– Definitions and annotations
• Enables greater interactivity and learning opportunities
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DVD Video Description
• No SAP channel required• Eight audio tracks available
– Spanish – Video description– Other languages
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Expanded Description • Menu: Expanded description track
– Pause video – Detailed description– Adds few minutes to program
• Optimized for classrooms with a variety of abilities
• Very positive feedback• Potential data source for research
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Subtitled Description • Dialog and descriptive narration • Italicized description subtitles at top
of the screen– For students with both vision and hearing loss– For classrooms with students of varying
abilities – For those learning about accessibility
• Positive feedback • Research resource
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View CaptionMax’s Enhanced DVDDemonstration
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Other DVD Elements
• “Extras” Subtitled and Described– Slideshows– Lesson planning videos
• DVD-ROM Supplements– Tagged, described PDFs optimized for
screen reader software
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Future Features/Enhancements• More text size options• User feedback on menu options • Repurposing for reuse on other
display systems– web streaming– hard drives– portable devices (iPod)
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Outreach Efforts
• Teacher outreach • “For Teachers” subsite:
www.captionmax.com/teacherwww.captionmax.com/teacher
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New Marks for Public Domain
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Thank You