207 Best Practices and Innovations for Video Captions
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Wednesday, June 8
Design
301/302
The use of online video has become an essential part of teaching and learning. At the same time, it is challenging to provide accessible video accommodations for audiences across platforms and languages. Google thinks that all video material should be universally accessible—why not caption?
In this session, you will learn about various captioning solutions and the costs and benefits derived from each. You will learn how to visually design captions and some implementation best practices from cutting-edge use cases. Finally, you will explore the process of how to translate videos into other languages.
In this session, you will learn:
- Captioning basics and best practices
- How to translate videos
- About the importance of video accessibility
- How to visually design captions
Audience:
Novice and intermediate designers,
developers, and project managers.
Technology
discussed in this session:
Caption files, YouTube video editing,
and automatic captioning tools.
Ben Cruz
Program Manager, Google Cloud
Ben Cruz, a Google program manager and video accessibility evangelist, is an eLearning developer with five years of experience in online training. His previous work involved custom educational video production for Yamaha, Keyfax NewMedia, Alan Parsons’ Art & Science of Sound Recording, and HRmarketer. As training manager at Google for Work, he works with enablement teams—helping users get the most from their tools—while finding creative ways to build more engaging courses. He uses his experience as a filmmaker in his work as a digital training designer. Ben holds a BA in film and digital media from the University of California–Santa Cruz.
