MAGpie Reboot CADET Caption And Description Editing Tool

MAGpie Reboot: CADET Caption And Description Editing Tool New, Free Caption-Authoring Software Bryan Gould Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) WGBH Educational Foundation http: //ncam. wgbh. org

Captions § The majority of online videos are self-generated, with original content that is not accessible to millions of people who are deaf or hard of hearing because the videos are not captioned. 2

Captions § Federal regulations and related litigation will continue to dramatically increase the number of online videos that are required to be captioned, with high-quality captions. § Automated speech-to-text captioning does not provide reliable access. § No simple, inexpensive caption-editing software for creating quality post-production online captions. 3

Captions § The National Center for Accessible Media at WGBH (NCAM) is developing CADET (Caption and Description Editing Tool), a free, downloadable caption authoring software application. 4

About NCAM § Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media at the WGBH Educational Foundation (NCAM); http: //ncam. wgbh. org § 45 years of access technologies at WGBH § The Caption Center (1972) §Descriptive Video Service (1990) §NCAM (1991) 5

About NCAM §R&D facility with the mission to make electronic media of all types accessible to people with sensory impairments § Work funded by federal grants, private foundations and strategic partners large and small § Expertise in on-line accessibility of all kinds (Web, multimedia, PDF, captioning, description, etc. ) § Expertise in standards and guidelines (Section 508, WCAG, ebooks/textbooks, image description, timed text, synchronized multimedia, etc. ) 6

Captions (1972)

Mo. Pix (1997) 8

MAGpie (2000) 9

CADET (2017) § Caption And Description Editing Tool § High-quality, low-cost, easy-to-use caption editor for D. I. Y. captioning § Produce caption files compatible with all popular web browsers and online media players § Schools, government agencies, colleges and universities, nonprofits

CADET (2017) 11

CADET funding § Indigogo campaign § November 2015 § Low funding § High visibility & interest § Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office § April 2016 § $70, 000 grant § Development & Dissemination 12

CADET Demo § IT’S CADET DEMO TIME!!! 13

CADET specs § Locally hosted HMTL 5 – works on all browsers § Uses video formats that play natively in browsers MP 4 / M 4 V § Input: Web. VTT, SRT, TTML, plain text § Output: Web. VTT, SRT, TTML, plain text 14

Workflows CADET 15 CAPTION FILE All Video Players Custom Players HTML & Flash

Workflows CADET 16 CAPTION FILE All Video Players SCRIPT NCAM is developing CADET (Caption and Description Editing Tool), a free, downloadable caption authoring software… Custom Players HTML & Flash

Workflows 17 CADET CAPTION FILE Auto. Caption Script All Video Players Custom Players HTML & Flash

CADET timeline § Development including new UI is approaching beta (TODAY) § Identify beta testers for CADET software (TODAY) § Release beta version of CADET to testers (DECEMBER/JANUARY) § Collect feedback from beta testers (Q 1 2017) § Implement changes based on feedback (Q 1 2017) § Release final version of CADET to general public (Spring 2017) 18

Contact Bryan Gould Director of Accessible Learning and Assessment Technology WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) bryan_gould@wgbh. org 19