The deaf blogosphere was buzzing this week about the latest good captioning news: CNET TV (http://www.cnettv.com/) announced it would caption all of their online video. That's right, ALL. To see the captions, all viewers have to do is click the "CC" in the bottom bar of the video viewer.
Who would have thought that CNET TV would be the one to show up all the "big ones" like CNN.com, ABC News.com, et cetera? (CNN.com does caption selected video but not directly accessible on their site. Go to Harkle.com to see selected captioned CNN video) I had never watched CNET before this, and wasn't even aware of their website until the news came out. For years deaf and hard of hearing people had been begging the "big ones" to put captions on their video. Finally, a network is being truly responsive!
Now let's see if this shames the "big ones" into following CNET's lead.
I thought that was great! I went to their site – looks well designed, press CC on the first video – “Sorry, captions are not available”.
But it’s a goal.
(I caption movie trailers)
http://billcreswell.wordpress.com/category/captioned-movie-trailers/
It’s definitely great that they’re doing this. I understand the reason that not all videos are transcribed is because it’s going to take some time to get them transcribed, but as long as they get transcribed in the end, I’m fine with that. Kudos to CNet!
Likewise, I’m not familiar with their website. It’s a great start and hopefully this will goad others to start CC their own websites
That was too bad, Bill; I went there and clicked on CC and voila; captioning in all it’s glory!
It is not captioned on “all videos” as you say. You got to be careful on that.
I did find a lot of their reviews captioned later.
just wanted to point out that while english transcription of video is very helpful to many viewers, it’s not anything at all like asl ~ many Deaf people i know find the english words can make things worse for them as not only are they having to translate the written transcription into asl, but they also are distracted from “reading” all of the visual information in the video (in asl, many actions that are considered “non verbal” to hearing folks are actually important grammatical indicators & more ~ not to mention the traditional “non verbal” information revealing intensity, attitudes, action, etc)