[Chapter-delegates] My Voice Counts video

[Narelle Clark]

This is a beautiful video. One of the more elegant I think I've seen, and
really poignant - talking about people's abilities and their controbutions
to society.

My congratulations to all concerned.

Joly - we'll get flak here too if there are no captions, and the automatic
ones are rubbish! Completely useless if you're Deaf.

Thanks for all your efforts everyone. It's worth it for this video.
[Now I have to practice my French and Spanish!!!]


Narelle


> Hi,
>
> The Internet Society is making Internet accessibility awareness a
> priority.
> http://www.internetsociety.org/doc/internet-accessibility-internet-use-persons-disabilities-moving-forward
>
> A video has been produced, and just posted, highlighting a Community
> Grant Programme to bring access to the blind and visually impaired in
> Armenia.
> http://youtu.be/13IDqSEczYU
>
> This video currently doesn't have captions. I know that if I posted it
> up on the ISOC-NY site, I'd get a swift rap on the knuckles from our
> deaf and hard-of-hearing members, along the lines of putting one's
> money where one's mouth is.
>
> They have emphasized that, to make a video accessible, it requires not
> only fully descriptive closed captions, but also a separate text
> transcript.
>
> So, I've made the effort to transcribe it on AMARA
> http://www.amara.org/en/videos/HsE4wox0kmGw/en/519749/
>
> I am asking, specifically, 1) if others here could review that for
> accuracy, specifically the final phrase, which did not quite seem
> right, and 2) given that review, the ISOC team could download the sbv
> and txt versions from there and make them available on YouTube, via
> closed captions and a link..
>
> Further. I would suggest that Chapters experiment with using AMARA to
> translate the captions into their own languages. It's a short 4 minute
> video, so it's not a superhuman task.
>
> j
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Narelle Clark
President
Internet Society of Australia

president at isoc-au.org.au
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