Penn State Learning Design Community Hub

In recent years, Pat Besong of ITS had developed and offered a captioning tool for the Mac called "Parity." This tool has now been released as MovCaptioner from http://www.synchrimedia.com.

It is still free for Penn State users. You can contact Pat Besong (pzb@psu.edu) for information on how to obtain a license.

The cost for users outside of Penn State is approximately $40, but it does support a wide range of caption types including Quicktime, Flash, YouTube, video poscast and more.

A lot of us have heard about the need to caption online videos, but may not have considered the whay they should presented

The following guide, Keys to Captioning, is a style guide to what the standards for captions are
http://www.dcmp.org/captioningkey/text.html

It include topics such as placement, how many lines (2 lines max in most cases), switching voices, background music and other important topics.

FYI - Thanks to Wendy Mahan for pointing this out to me.

Ann Taylor from EMS mentioned a transcriptionist from WPSX/WPSU
http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/learningdesign/node/6#comment-6

Are there any other transcription resources out there we should know about?

I thought I would start this area with a question for the group on what accessibility issues you encounter? Is it transcribing audio, labeling images or something else?

FYI - Anyone can answer!