How To Caption YouTube Videos

Video: How to caption YouTube videos.



Captioning your YouTube videos not only makes them more acessable for the hearing impaired, but they also make the contents of your video more accessible to YouTube.



Once YouTube knows exactly what is being said in your video you will be more likely to rank when people search for related words or phrases.

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Did you know a very simple way already exists in the YouTube interface to add captions?



Follow along with one of your own videos and watch your views increase. Visit http://vidiseo.com/how-to-caption-youtube-videos/ for more information.



Related: See the original #captionTHIS video - #captionTHIS

Deaf Want A Fair Hearing On Film & TV Subtitles

Video: Maltese Deaf people want a fair hearing on film and TV subtitles.



Valletta, Malta - The quality of life of Deaf people would dramatically improve if subtitles were introduced on TV and in cinemas, according to campaigners.



“Think how much general knowledge you get from the TV,” said Alison Vere from the Deaf People Association, which is behind the Subtitles Now campaign launched recently.



“With the exception of the five-minute Deaf News in Maltese sign language, local TV is inaccessible to Deaf and those hard of hearing,” she added.



Organised jointly with film culture NGO Kinemastik, Subtitles Now is promoting the introduction of sub-titles on TV and more screenings of subtitled movies in cinemas.

Video by kinemastik



The campaign released a video on Youtube to drive home its message: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5D_y2G5els.



It starts with sound and sub­titles so that all people can understand what is happening, but then the captions disappear and all the dialogue is conducted in sign language.



Eventually the sound of Bob Dylan singing the words “How does it feel?” from Like a Rolling Stone can be heard and a caption asks, “How does it feel to see but not hear?”



Ms Vere said deafness was an invisible disability because it went unseen unless people were communicating in sign language or wearing visible hearing aids.



If their campaign is successful, it would “provide a quantum leap in the quality of life of Deaf Maltese and would also help increase Deaf literacy.”



Association president Steven Mulvaney visited the UK recently and was amazed to find he had the option of closed caption subtitles on every programme on the TV in his hotel room, available through the push of a button.



The association would like Maltese Deaf people to have the same option... Read more: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130205/local/Deaf-want-a-fair-hearing-on-film-and-TV-subtitles-.456320

Growth of Viral Video Leaves Deaf Community in the Dark

Washington Post - Growth of viral video leaves Deaf people in the dark.



Viral videos may be good for sharing ideas and spreading funny foreign pop hits, but they are leaving millions of Deaf and Hearing Impaired people out of the loop.



Online video is becoming a more ubiquitous part of American life. Netflix videos made up one-third of online data used in the United States last year. YouTube expects 90 percent of online traffic to be video in the next few years. By 2016, Cisco estimates, 1.2 million minutes of video will be streamed or downloaded every second.



That video explosion has been great for small-film and TV producers, who are able to reach an audience without a big studio budget, and fans of niche programming. But in some ways, it has left the deaf and hard-of-hearing community starting from scratch after years of advocating for captions on traditional television.



“We could be back to square one,” said Christian Vogler, director of the Technology Access Program at Gallaudet University.



The rise of e-mails, instant messages and social media was a godsend to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community, which embraced the new, text-based ways to communicate.



“In the mid- to late 1990s, it was close to the ideal medium,” Vogler said. But as the Web evolved to include more video, he said, old barriers to communication resurfaced. ... Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/growth-of-online-video-leaves-deaf-community-in-the-dark/2012/11/28/4048e4ac-389c-11e2-8a97-363b0f9a0ab3_story.html



Support #CaptionTHIS

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Sign the petition at:

http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-cnn-to-start-providing-equal-access-to-their-online-videos

To send letters to different companies and learn more about this:

http://blog.deafpolitics.org/2012/05/captionthis-social-media-movement.html

More Benefits of captions:

http://curbcut.net/accessibility/the-benefits-of-captions-legit/

Collaborative for Communication Access via Captioning:

http://ccacaptioning.org/



Have A Great Holiday.

DYV Administaff.

Proof Evidence NAD !

Video: Proof Evidence NAD! A satire: Another skit from Molly and Glenda on recent hot topic about NAD, Barry Sewell aka TheHolism and #captionTHIS.

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Remember!!! This is "Roasting!"



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Discriminates on the GLBT & Marriage Equality ?



The purpose of this article is to explain everything regarding Deaf people's responses to MM and theHolism's blogs in DeafRead for making a bad messages such as oppression on the GLBT, Marriage Equality, Civil Rights and NAD.



Numerous Deaf people of the community feels disagreement with the ruckus (theHolism and MM) somehow, the blogger reader trying to leave the comments under thier blogs which they keep deleted messages and/or not approved the comments on thier blogs which the ruckus cannot deal with who supporting the civil rights due to thier homophobic is obvious.



However, This is just simple that the ruckus is so homophobic! Just as civil rights are civil rights, political engagement is political engagement. The last thing the NAD needs is intracommunity division or to send a message to the general public that some rights are more important than others. Unfortunately, this is precisely what theHolism and MM’s invitation led to.



What those laws are and exactly how they are Homophobic, Islamophobic, Racist, and how they repress people of color, poor women. If you see the Facebook group page, End One, End All, there is an article about intersectionality that illustrates why we must stand in solidarity for all civil rights.



The ruckus supports legal discrimination against a minority group. They strive for 100% one way and discrimination in real life practice. We give you the links of the discriminated against on the GLBT...For examples and to read and weep...



NAD Shifted Away Again!

Shrews are Getting NAD's Reins

Thank You GLBT, Our Trojan Horse!

NAD, Only for the Oppressed?

Dear NADQ (National Association of the Deaf Queers)

Go Holism!

What Is It Like For Deaf People Without Captions ?

Video: What is it like for Deaf people without captions ? [#captionTHIS]

Video by JuliaDameron



See the original #captionTHIS video - #captionTHIS

See the second #captionTHIS video - #captionTHIS Day of Action



Sign the petition at:

http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-cnn-to-start-providing-equal-access-to-t...



To send letters to different companies and learn more about this:

http://blog.deafpolitics.org/2012/05/captionthis-social-media-movement.html



Further information regarding captioning and accessibility can be found at:



GLAD's lawsuit against CNN:

http://www.gladinc.org/information-center/in-the-news/2011/breaking-news-cnn-...



NAD's lawsuit against Netflix:

http://www.nad.org/news/2011/6/nad-files-disability-civil-rights-lawsuit-agai...



Collaborative for Communication Access via Captioning:

http://ccacaptioning.org/



More Benefits of captions:

http://curbcut.net/accessibility/the-benefits-of-captions-legit/



Forbes article on CC Upgrades, Searchability and Why It's Personal:

http://onforb.es/y3pYki



Video created by Jules Dameron

http://www.julesdameron.com

#captionTHIS: Day of Action

Video: #captionTHIS Day of Action June 6th is when we work together to protest to end the injustice from oppression, because we care!

Video by monkichia



Transcript is included in this description, after these links.



Sign the petition at:

http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-cnn-to-start-providing-equal-access-to-their-online-videos



To send letters to different companies and learn more about this:

http://blog.deafpolitics.org/2012/05/captionthis-social-media-movement.html



Further information regarding captioning and accessibility can be found at GLAD's lawsuit against CNN:

http://www.gladinc.org/information-center/in-the-news/2011/breaking-news-cnn-...



NAD's lawsuit against Netflix:

http://www.nad.org/news/2011/6/nad-files-disability-civil-rights-lawsuit-against-netflix



Collaborative for Communication Access via Captioning:

http://ccacaptioning.org/



More Benefits of captions:

http://curbcut.net/accessibility/the-benefits-of-captions-legit/



Forbes article on CC Upgrades, Searchability and Why It's Personal:

http://onforb.es/y3pYki



Get a "Stop Audism" t-shirt!

http://www.handsay.com



Special thanks to Ben Jarashow for the Pierre Desloges quote!

An Ink and Salt Production



Sign the petition here: http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-cnn-to-start-providing-equal-access-to-their-online-videos



Also check out our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/captionTHISnow