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Hey, it's Rikki.
Welcome to Deaf Awareness Month.
Today, I want to talk about how your signed videos might not be accessible.
If there is no sound in a video, it is inaccessible to blind/deaf-blind people.
If a blind person can't see the signs,
they need sound in order to understand the video.
If someone is deaf-blind, they need captions, but
they can't see the captions very well because of size.
People go, "What does that say? I can't read that."
So you need something to make videos more accessible.
So what do you do?
There's 3 things you can do:
1 - If you're comfortable, voice in the video.
Make a voiceover that you can put on the video.
So then you'll have two things: captions and voice in the video.
Now, I know and understand that not all deaf people are comfortable voicing.
So a possibility would be to get someone else to do it for you.
I know that Chrissy has someone do the voiceover for her videos.
So that's an option.
2 - If voice is not an option, write out a transcript.
It's like captions, but it's all on one "paper".
It's a bunch of words all laid out at once in the screen.
But wait a minute!
How is a blind/deaf-blind person supposed to use that?
There's a program called VoiceOver.
VoiceOver is a program that lets the computer read text out loud.
Or, you know how there are deaf people who can hear?
It's the same with blind/deaf-blind people.
If a blind person has some vision,
they can use their computer to make the text bigger.
So the font would be tiny before, but now it'll be bigger and more viewable.
Make sense?
3 - Both, or all the options mixed together.
So you have a voiceover, captions, and a transcript.
Just everything together in a nice little package.
So if captions were also included and if someone used them,
they would be in charge of changing size and color.
Or if they don't want captions, they can simply open the transcript.
Or if they're a hearing blind person, they can use VoiceOver and hear it.
So now you have the transcript, but where do you put it?
I'm an avid user of Google Docs.
That is my preferred program.
You can use whatever you want.
But that's just my suggestion.
So where do you put the transcript in the video?
If I'm using Google Docs, I write it all out and then
I put the link to the transcript in the video.
Personally, I put the link in the description box.
The description box is under the video player.
I just put the link in there.
So if someone needs it, they just click on the link.
They open it, they read it, they get accessibility.
I know people who like to put the transcript in the comments.
So you have the video player and then the comments underneath.
If you want, you just paste the whole transcript there.
Most of the time, I see this done on Facebook.
For myself, I personally prefer a link because of character limits.
If you use a description box, you have to put all information in it.
But you can't write everything you want because there's no room.
If you use the comments, I guess sometimes that'll work.
Or if you want, again, use both.
Really, I do use both.
I leave a link in the description as well as in the pinned comment.
That comment stays at the top so everyone can see it.
They'll always see it because it's at the top.
So, again, your options are voiceover if you're comfortable voicing,
or have someone else voice for you,
have a transcript typed out,
or lastly, both.
It's nice to have all the options because everyone has different needs.
So, hopefully, this video helped you out some.
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Happy Deaf Awareness Month,
and I'll see you later. Bye.
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