YouTube has made it easier for fans to submit captions to their favorite creator’s videos to help them become more accessible to people who need them!
SUBSCRIBE to Kat Blaque : http://bit.ly/1D3jwSF
Yoooo all of you who help me caption my videos are the best, especially the ones captioning in languages I don’t personally speak. Thanks for helping my videos be more inclusive.
When creating captions, whether for your own content or for other people’s vdeos, please remember that
… Yes, of course deaf people need to see a transcript of what people say …
…. But we also need to know who is talking. If it is all transcript with no identifiers then it can be hard to follow when one person stops talking and the next starts. If it’s a debate or something then I can’t even follow who supports which position unless you clearly identify the name of speaker (or other identfier if name is unknown) right at the start of when they start speaking each time
… We also need to know people’s tone of voice (especially in cases where knowing tone of voice could change how we understand what’s being said … a joking tone can turn an angry insult into friendly humor)
… And we also need sounds like people laughing, sounds and noises happening in the background, etc … I have watched scenes that made absolutely no sense to me until I finally learned there were sounds going on to which the people were reacting(Identifers of speakers go at the start when they start talking with a colon followed by the transcript. Description of tone, sounds, etc, can go in parantheses)
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