Advocacy Video Series: Part 24

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Transcript of "Advocacy Video Series - Part 24" produced by Rooted in Rights Part 24 is Transcripts! So, we just discussed captioning. If you are captioning on KZbin, for example, and you create an SRT file, you can download that SRT file and turn it into a .TXT, a plain text file that will become your transcript. The transcript includes all the audio and all the visual information in your video. So if you have audio description, that should be in your transcript. You should be able to read the transcript and get all of the same visual and audio information that you would get from a video. Now, if you have your video, and you have audio description, and you have captions, why do you need a transcript? Great question, glad you asked. Transcripts are great for folks who are Deafblind, who don't have access to the audio or the visual information. It's also really useful if folks aren't able to download your video. .TXT files are much smaller than videos, and you could read and get the whole information from the video without actually having to watch it. If you don't have great internet access, or if you're trying to send a lot of information, having that transcript is really important. When you download that SRT file, it's going to have the timecode. That's where the text matches up with the timing of the video. To make a transcript, simply take that timecode out, and you've got a transcript. Put a title on it, "Transcript of whatever the title of your video is," and make sure to put "End of transcript" at the end. A plain text file like a .TXT is really great for screen readers because it will be able to read all of that information very clearly, and it will not have any trouble accessing it. For our best practice with transcripts, we try and post the entire transcript directly in the first comment on social media. We do also link them on our website underneath the video, but as much as possible, having that text available right where the video is and not having to click away to it is the best-case scenario. Also, if you're making something that's purely audio, like a podcast, a transcript is the only way to make that podcast accessible, or else all of that audio information is going to be lost if someone can't hear it. So if you've created captions, you've basically already created the transcript. So take that SRT file, turn it into a .TXT, and for step-by-step instructions, go to RootedinRights.org/AccessThat End of Transcript