This page intentionally left blank. ⬇️, ➡️, or spacebar 🛰 to start slidedeck. --- class: center, middle # Transcription --- # Transcription - Legal issues - Closed captioning - Tools --- # Legal issues (in the US): - Americans with Disabilities Act - Section 508 - FCC Regulations - 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA) - Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) WebAIM provides an in-depth [overview of the related regulations](https://webaim.org/articles/laws/usa/). --- # Americans with Disabilities Act The ADA is a broadly-defined regulation, some sections which cover transcription and closed captioning are: - Title II, which states that communications with persons with disabilities must be "as effective as communications with others" [28 C.F.R. ss 35.160 (a)] and - Title III, which deals with public accommodation of people with disabilities. --- # Section 508 "No otherwise qualified individual with a disability in the United States... shall, solely by reason of her or his disability, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance." - [Overview of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Sections 504 and 508) - WebAIM](https://webaim.org/articles/laws/usa/rehab) --- # FCC Regulations Section 255 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 "requires manufacturers of telecommunications equipment and customer premises equipment to ensure that the equipment is designed, developed, and fabricated to be accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities, if readily achievable." 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act: [full link](https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/21st-century-communications-and-video-accessibility-act-cvaa) --- # Closed captioning Closed captioning is the display of text on television. The "closed" part indicates that they are not permanently "burned" onto the screen for display, but rather have to be activated by the viewer through an assisted device or adjustment of default settings. --- # Subtitles List of formats: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtitle_(captioning)#Subtitle_formats](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtitle_(captioning)#Subtitle_formats) --- # Tools, transcription - [oTranscribe](http://otranscribe.com/) - [autoEdit2](http://www.autoedit.io/) - [Hyperaudio](https://hyperaud.io/) --- # Tools, crowdsourcing - [National Archives Citizen Archivist](https://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist) - [Scribe](https://scribeproject.github.io/) - [WGBH Fix It](http://fixit.americanarchive.org/) --- # Additional Resources - [TextAV Event](https://sites.google.com/view/textav) - [When is captioning required? - National Association of the Deaf](https://www.nad.org/resources/technology/captioning-for-access/when-is-captioning-required/) --- # Learning more [Home](/)