Overview

Detail: The Internal Revenue Service, a division of the Treasury Department, uses YouTube to communicate important information to taxpayers. The videos include audio, a sign language interpreter and captioning.

External Link: IRS Captioned Example

Detail: Because the Census touches all Americans, reaching out to explain the 2010 Census process is important. The U.S. Census Bureau has turned to YouTube to communicate with citizens. The videos are captioned, and the accompanying transcripts are used to generate foreign language translations. Several videos are translated into Spanish, and the captions are translated as well.

External Link: Census Bureau YouTube captioned video

Detail: The National Institute of Standards and Technology, a Federal research organization which is part of the Commerce Department promotes scientific information through captioned videos. YouTube is a vehicle that allows NIST to communicate with students, researchers and businesses. Because they are a government agency, they are required to make their content Section 508 accessible.

External Link: NIST YouTube captioned video

Detail: As part of President Obama's use of social networking sites, the White House Blog offers a "one stop" communications portal. Timely information and videos are posted for viewers. AST captioned this video for the National Institute of Health, which was recently posted on the White House Blog.

External Link: Daily Post of White House Blog Video

Detail: JISC Legal is a publicly-funded organization which assists UK colleges and universities with ICT-related legal issues. As part of this, it gives guidance on meeting legal accessibility duties which come from the Disability Discrimination Act of 1995. JISC Legal recorded video guidance in this area, with the participation of a number of experts.  In order to set an example of accessibility good practice and to use the video in different contexts, JISC Legal commissioned the captioning of this recording.  The finished video meets the needs of deaf and hearing-impaired users, but also assists those who work in an environment where reading the text is easier than listening, and provides everyone access to the clarity of text where complex legal duties are being discussed.

External Link: JISC Accessibility Webcast with Captions

Detail: Cisco uses video extensively for training and corporate communications. This video is used for product training for the Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances and includes captions. Cisco captions videos for accessibility purposes.

External Link: Cisco Video With Captions

Detail: Apple uses QuickTime videos to communicate to developers and Apple customers. Apple is committed to supporting accessibility in its products and captions its videos. At key events like Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), videos are captioned to allow viewers to read the presentations.

External Link: Apple developer captioned videos

Detail: Microsoft Research has developed a videos library of important landmarks in technology. They use Automatic Sync to provide captions and transcripts for their videos. The transcripts are also made available to read without the videos. The captions enable viewers to search at the word level and to show the instances where the word occurs prior to publishing the media.

External Link: Microsoft Research Captioned Video and Search Functions

Detail: BNET, a division of CBS Interactive produces thousands of videos and chose to provide transcripts to enable deaf viewers to read the audio script.
Budget issues limit the number of videos that they are able to caption, so they chose to provide transcripts to follow the videos.  If they need to translate the information into a foreign language, the transcript can be used.

External Link: Business Net (BNET) Videos

Detail: KPBS utilizes AST's CaptionSync technology, which allows them to get the caption files for both TV and web media and launch both broadcasts simultaneously.

External Link: KPBS Show San Diego Week

Detail: CNET.com, a part of CBS Interactive, is the leading online provider of technology and consumer electronic information. Video is an important format for communicating visual information, with tens of thousands of videos being hosted to millions of viewers. To attract more viewers and improve the viewing experience, CNET uses Automatic Sync Technologies to caption their videos. In addition to using the time-coded captions for the video, transcript text is made searchable so search engines like Google can identify content within the video as part of their organic search process. According to Justin Eckhouse, Senior Product Manager, "Once we added the captions, we noticed a dramatic increase in referrals from search engines. The increase in traffic from search engine referrals helped us to justify the expense of captioning". Eckhouse says that CNET does want to support accessibility practices, even though they are not mandated to do so. "Captions benefit more than just the deaf community. Many people who watch video over the web are not in a place where they can easily hear the audio, so having captions displayed aids in their ability to watch and comprehend the content."

External Link: CNET Videos with Captions

Detail: BNET, a division of CBS Interactive produces thousands of videos and chose to provide transcripts to enable deaf viewers to read the audio script.
Budget issues limit the number of videos that they are able to caption, so they chose to provide transcripts to follow the videos.  If they need to translate the information into a foreign language, the transcript can be used.

External Link: Business Net (BNET) Videos