It is great to see many of the videos published on Youtube, however I noticed that they do not yet appear to be captioned. Is there a plan to caption all of the videos?
@christopher_phi , it's my understanding that all of the videos have been captioned. I just clicked on the specific YouTube video for which you provided the link, and turned on captions, and I can see them there. Are you not seeing them as well? I also navigated to that same video here in the Community— —and again, I can see captions. Please elaborate?
We want to thank everyone who has participated in this discussion for their patience as we gathered more information behind the scenes. A key part of our company's InstructureCon plan has been and continues to be to professionally caption the InstructureCon 2017 videos, and we're in the process of working with our outside vendor on this process—which is taking some time. We'll update this conversation periodically with specific information about the timeline for completion.
And it's not just human beings who need help with audio: bad auto-captions mean bad indexing by the search engines like Google or our own Canvas Community search. The search engines need text too!
To get the most use out of any video, people need to be able to search for the video and find it. Adding an accurate transcript and/or captions means that the search engines will accurately index and retrieve the video for people to watch and use.
Given all the time that people invest in making conference presentations, and all the money that Instructure invests in the conference itself, making that extra investment to increase the usefulness of the videos is a very good idea IMO.
Good news everyone, it appears that the conference videos have now been professionally captioned! The Playlist for those videos is available here:
Mission Possible: Accessible Course Materials- Christopher Phillips - YouTube
Thank you to everyone for the feedback and to Instructure for taking care of this!
#accessibilitywin
