[Accessibility-testing] An aside: help on captioning?

Jacqueline Ashwell jacqueline.a.lott at gmail.com
Mon Nov 19 11:55:38 EST 2018


Awesome, Deborah. Thanks! I will check into Amara this evening and if I
have questions or need volunteers I’ll come back to you all and this list.
Really appreciate the quick response.

- Jacqueline

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 5:12 AM <deborah.kaplan at suberic.net> wrote:

> Yes! And thanks for doing this, Jacqueline. :)
>
> Amara is the tool and the community for this: https://amara.org/en/
> They've got a platform so you can do it yourself, they can sell you
> subtitling services, and it's also well set up so you can get volunteers
> to crowdsource the subs.  That's how they do Ted talk subtitles: a
> community of volunteers.
>
> Jacqueline, I'd be happy to work with you on this. I've done some work
> with Amara so I understand their platform.
>
> Deborah
>
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2018, Jason McIntosh wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > IFComp organizer Jacqueline Ashwell (cc:) is looking for help on
> transcribing or captioning the recording of the IFComp-winner-announcement
> livestream that she recorded on Saturday. The video is on Youtube:
> https://youtu.be/8KTTpP696yI
> >
> > Would any of y’all have a recommendation on where she should look (or
> even who she should contact) regarding setting up something like this?
> >
> > Jacq and IFTF are both interested in the idea of doing more videos after
> this, so knowing more about captioning or transcription resources sooner
> would be a boon.
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