January is the season for new year’s resolutions. If you are an educator, your resolution may be to better prepare your students for the workforce in 2013. If you are a college senior, your resolution might be to land your first real job — not a trivial task in the current economy. Imagine how much [...]
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Video Production for a Global Audience
Have you ever traveled to another country and wished that you could understand the language people were speaking, at least enough to grasp the news flash on the television, or the announcements over the loudspeakers, or even the description of the menu by the waiter? Now think about all those English language videos that you [...]
Accessibility Reaches the Corner Office
We just returned from our annual trek to the Educause conference. For those that are not familiar with Educause, it is one of the key gatherings in the higher ed community, and an important showcase of what is new in the field of educational technology. The exhibit floor is packed with hundreds of vendors showing [...]
Production Transcripts: When to use them, and why
In addition to our standard transcription, closed captioning, and translation services, AST offers a service called Production Transcripts. This service is a bit different than our transcription and captioning services, so we wanted to take some time to describe when and why you would want to use production transcripts. What are Production Transcripts? One way [...]
As FCC’s CVAA regulations take effect, Netflix, Amazon are (finally) getting serious
The Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (known as “CVAA”) was signed into law by President Obama over two years ago, but the first set of FCC regulations based on the law did not take effect until a couple of weeks ago. The original bill had strong bipartisan support: it passed unanimously in the [...]
Captioning Someone Else’s YouTube Videos
If your company or organization is serious about adding closed captions to all of your video content (and it should be) you are probably familiar with YouTube’s closed captioning features. When logged in to your YouTube account you can use the Video Manager, click on the Captions tab for a video that you have uploaded, [...]
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