NEW (June 2018)
In order to make it easier for everyone to comply with Syracuse University's new ICT Accessibility policy, ITS has worked with Automatic Sync Technologies (AST) to provide captioning and transcription services using their CaptionSync automated captioning service. See Captioning With AST/CaptionSync for more information if:
• You have a video or audio file that needs captions.
• You have a video on your YouTube or Vimeo channel that needs captions.
• You have a video in Ensemble that needs captions.
• You have a video that will require audio description.
• You would like to have a YouTube or Vimeo video that you do NOT own captioned.
• You need live captioning for an event.
About Captioning
- Captions: Improving Access to Postsecondary Education, a video from the University of Washington
- Video Captioning: When is it required? (Video Captioning Decision Tree)
- Guidelines for Captioning
About Cart Services
About Audio Description
- Audio description (sometimes referred to as Described Video) is provided by a trained describer that provides descriptions of the visual components of the video. Audio description makes video accessible to blind/visually-impaired persons who would otherwise miss out on information presented visually. This information is synchronized with the video, but provided in a separate sound track.
- For a full description and example of audio description, see the Penn State whitepaper titled An Introduction to Audio Description in Higher Education Video Content
Copyright considerations
- If you are captioning a video created by someone else, determine if your purpose qualifies for Fair Use
- Copyright Law vs Accessibility Law: Is it Fair Use to Caption Video you Don't Own? (3PlayMedia, April 9, 2015)
Captioning Ensemble Videos
- How to Caption Ensemble Content with Automatic Sync (AST) Integration
- Captioning with Ensemble and Rev
Captioning Vendors
- 3PlayMedia
- Audioeyes LLC
- Caption Advantage, LLC
- AMAC - Captioning and Described Media Services
- SpeakerText
Do-It-Yourself
- Free Tools for Captioning YouTube Videos (Terrill Thompson, University of Washington)
- Using YouTube, Express Scribe and other tools (Ken Petri, Ohio State University)
- How to Add Closed Captions & Subtitles to Facebook Videos
- Multi-media Universally Designed (The ACCESS Project, Colorado State University) includes Tutorials
- Find resources for creating your own Audio Descriptions at The Smith-Kettlewell Video Description Research and Development Center.
- videos showing best practices for creating your own video descriptions
- video description software
- standards and guidelines
- YouDescribe - submit videos for audio description or do it yourself