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A Little Deaf Education

Thursday, June 7th, 2012 at 11:35 AM Category: Tech 4 comments

I’ve been busy over at Bionic Ear Blog as two great blog posts inspired the two recent posts. I’m sharing them here as that blog and this one have different audiences. You may be interested in learning a little more about what it’s like for a deaf person to hear and the different types of captioned videos available.

Furthermore, I want to open the door to your questions about deafness. Ask anything. I know how hard it is to ask someone such questions — unless you know the person very well — because you don’t know whether that person is sensitive or open. Ask away.

Closed-Captioned Video Examples has actual videos of different types of captioned videos so you can see how they’re different. If your business produces videos, it will give you things to consider in creating accessible videos. (This is only a small part of accessibility. There are also accessible videos for people who are blind.)

What Do Hearing Loss, Hearing Aids and Cochlear Implants Sound Like? does exactly that and includes videos.

What questions do you have about deafness?

Tags: closed-captions, deaf, hard of hearing

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4 comments

Posted by Virginia on June 14th, 2012, 9:19 AM
Meryl, I’m always looking for information to help teach people how to easily caption video. Have you written anything about this or do you know of a great place to direct people who need to learn about captioning video?
Posted by meryl on June 14th, 2012, 10:26 AM
Great question. I used Camtasia to create my videos and it has a caption feature. I haven’t found a single source that’s good for learning how to caption videos — especially since it’s constantly changing. For example, I had a link to a BBC article on captioning videos — but it’s from 2007. Youtube and Google have captions tutorials.
Posted by Bill on June 14th, 2012, 5:15 PM
I use dotSUB for any video under 20 minutes. But I have some other links too:

http://billcreswell.wordpress.com/other-caption-resources/

http://billcreswell.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/how-to-start-adding-captionssubtitles-to-online-videos/
Posted by meryl on June 14th, 2012, 6:22 PM
Virgina — Bill is THE guy for captioning. Listen to the man.