How to CADET: free caption and audio description authoring software from WGBH’s NCAM Bryan Gould WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) AHG, November 14, 2018

About NCAM Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media at the WGBH Educational Foundation (NCAM); http://ncam.wgbh.org 45 years of access technologies at WGBH The Caption Center (1972) Descriptive Video Service (1990) NCAM (1991)

About NCAM Research, Development and Consulting group with the mission to make electronic media of all types accessible to people with sensory impairments Work funded by clients and strategic partners, federal and state grants, and private foundations Expertise in all areas of on-line accessibility incl. technology and content Web, multimedia, PDF, captioning, description, etc. Expertise in standards and guidelines Section 508, WCAG, e-books/textbooks, image description, timed text, synchronized multimedia, etc.

Captions WGBH has 45 years of experience building caption-authoring tools and teaching people to write captions: Original open captioning, 1970s Vidifont interface Broadcast-level closed-caption software, 1980s CC Writer/CC Word Classroom/DIY software CaptionWorks/QuickCaption/CCjr, 1980s-2000 CC University, 1990s MAGpie, 2000

Captions (1972)

MoPix (1997)

MAGpie (2000)

Captions and Online Video The majority of online videos are self-generated, with original content that is not accessible to millions of people who are deaf or hard of hearing because the videos are not captioned. Federal regulations and related litigation will continue to dramatically increase the number of online videos that are required to be captioned, with high-quality captions.

Captions and Online Video Automated speech-to-text captioning does not provide reliable captions: spelling errors missing punctuation obscenities No simple, inexpensive, offline caption-editing software for creating quality post-production online captions, or audio-description scripts. Continued requests for MAGpie upgrade or replacement.

CADET funding Indigogo campaign November 2015 Low funding High visibility & interest Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office April 2016 $70,000 grant Development & Dissemination

CADET specs Locally hosted HMTL5 – works in all browsers Uses video formats that play natively in browsers (e.g., MP4 / M4V) Input: WebVTT, SRT, TTML, QTText, plain text import transcripts for editing and timing, or import existing caption files for clean-up, or transcribe directly into CADET; edit and time captions Output: WebVTT, SRT, TTML, QTText, plain text

CADET: Captions

CADET: Captions

CADET: Captions

CADET: Captions

CADET: Captions

CADET: Captions

CADET: Captions

CADET: Descriptions

CADET: Descriptions

CADET: Descriptions

CADET: Descriptions

CADET: Descriptions

Workflows CADET All Video Players Custom Players CAPTION FILE HTML & Flash

Workflows CADET All Video Players Custom Players CAPTION FILE SCRIPT Ladies and gentlemen, you could have been anywhere in the world tonight but you’re here with us in New York City. Are you ready for a Thanksgiving Day Parade? Custom Players HTML & Flash

Workflows CADET All Video Players Custom Players CAPTION FILE Auto-Caption Script Custom Players HTML & Flash

DIAGRAM Center & NCAM Expanded Image Description Guidelines POET Image Description Training Tool Accessible Peep Multi-Modal Images

DIAGRAM Center & NCAM Expanded Image Description Guidelines

DIAGRAM Center & NCAM POET Image Description Training Tool

DIAGRAM Center & NCAM Accessible Peep

DIAGRAM Center & NCAM Multi-Modal Images

Download CADET: http://ncamftp.wgbh.org/cadet/ Bryan Gould WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) AHG, November 14, 2018