Google and Adobe Share Their Video Accessibility Strategies

March 15, 20122:00pm - 3:00pm ET

Naomi BlackAccessibility Engineering Program Manager Google@GoogleAccess

Andrew KirkpatrickGroup Product Manager AccessibilityAdobe Systems@AdobeAccess

Josh MillerCo-Founder3Play Media@3playmedia

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Overview

● Introduction● Why Caption?● CVAA Recap● Adobe: Andrew Kirkpatrick● Google: Naomi Black● Q&A

Why Caption?

● 48 million deaf and hard of hearing people○ 15% of your visitors/users!

● Captions allow users / companies to search videos

● People who speak English as a second language

● Noisy places / places where volume is muted

● Legislation - CVAA, Section 508

CVAA Compliance dates

● Prerecorded and unedited content – 6 months

○ 6 month deadline likely to impact fall programming

● Edited content – 12 months

● Live content – 18 months

○ Specific dates not yet set○ Rules have not been officially published in the Federal

Register.

● Archival content – 24 months

○ Content already online, without captions

Control for Users

● Platform vs. Application managed● Users provided with ability to control:

○ Character color, opacity, size, edge attributes

○ Fonts

○ Caption background color and opacity

○ Caption window color

○ Language

Adobe Premiere Pro

● Adobe Premiere Pro 5.5 offers video editors the ability to import closed captioning data and review results for accurate integration into video.

● Premiere Pro supports speech analysis and script alignment to help video production teams more easily support closed captioning in their workflows.

○ Import CEA-608 and CEA-708 caption data

● Premiere Pro supports caption data export for traditional or HD video, via 3rd party plugins.

Adobe Flash Professional

● Adobe Flash Professional CS 5.5 supports closed captioning using an open standard.

○ W3C TTML 1.0 caption format.● Adobe Flash provides the ability for

authors to provide video overlays, for example to allow for the addition of a sign language version for video

● Adobe Flash has provided captioning support for TTML since April 2007.

Adobe Captivate

● Adobe Captivate supports closed captioning for eLearning presentations and demonstrations.

● Authors utilize the built-in closed captioning tool in Adobe Captivate to author captions.

Open Source Media Framework

● OSMF supports captioning via TTML presently and a plugin for SMPTE-TT is available but also under further development.

● OSMF supports audio description via “late binding audio”: http://tinyurl.com/latebinding

● Demo (after YouTube demo)

Google - Goals for Captioning

● Every video has closed captions○ Make captioning easy to do○ Re-use existing caption files○ Captioning benefits (beyond accessibility!)

● Captions meet consumer needs○ Distinction between TV and Web is blurred○ Captions should just work everywhere○ Consumers should be able to control display

● Caption our own videos

Google - YouTube Scale

● 4 billion+ views a day

● 60 hrs of video uploaded every minute

● We support 155 languages and dialects

● > 1.6 million videos have closed captions

● 135 million videos have automatic captions

Google - Tools for Caption Creation

● Speech Recognition in 3 languages○ Automatic captions (pure speech recognition)○ Auto-timing (transcript synchronization)

● Support for many caption formats ○ SRT, SBV, CAP, SCC, EBU-STL, more...

● Support for MPEG-2 Import of CEA-608

● Bulk Caption Uploader Tool ○ http://apiblog.youtube.com/2011/01/youtube-captions-uploader-web-app.html

Demo - YouTube

Captions on YouTube● Finding captioned videos

○ Start playing at... adds value.○ Captions make videos easier to find

● Captions on Movies and Shows

● CEA-608 Demo○ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlUG8F9uVgM○ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEKLqMS_HuA

Demo - OSMF

Q&A

● Contacting Naomi Black:○ email captioning@google.com○ http://gplus.to/naomib○ @googleaccess

● Contacting Andrew Kirkpatrick○ akirkpat@adobe.com○ @awkawk○ @adobeaccess

● Contacting Josh Miller/3Play Media○ josh@3playmedia.com○ @3playmedia