Descriptive Audio - adding with Lectora?
May 5, 2021 12:00 AM
How do people typically host and share descriptive audio - in our case for older YouTube videos already embedded in the course - in their Lectora courses? Do you link to the descriptive audio output separately from the regular YouTube Links in a "View accessible version here" extra hyperlink for each video? Do you add a secondary simultaneous audio file on the screen with an action to play both? What's the preferred method without causing impacts to our existing YouTube links? We have a course we are retrofitting and need to add DA to the videos, but re-recording the video audio tracks is not an option. Ideas? :#
Solutions (2)
Hello Karen,
Your best bet would be to just add the DA to your Lectora title, you can control the DA audio via video actions or events.
-N
^^adding that we are really looking at ways of adding an extra layer of audio via Lectora instead - anything to not mess with the original YouTube videos, which would lead to a cascading series of hot messes from the need to re-clear and re-list these on CDC's YouTube channel to having to go into each course where we've used the embed code and re-do those per the new YouTube URLs.
Some ideas being tossed about include:
- Add a second audio file of timed descriptions to the screen and a simultaneous play action with the YT video
- have an alternative "accessible video" link to a 3rd party site that can house video and a separate descriptive audio track and transcript
Has anyone tried anything that works? This is for retrofitting existing YT videos - developing new things moving forward will be easy (just add the audio description in from the start).
Thx again, y'all :)
Discussion (2)
^^adding that we are really looking at ways of adding an extra layer of audio via Lectora instead - anything to not mess with the original YouTube videos, which would lead to a cascading series of hot messes from the need to re-clear and re-list these on CDC's YouTube channel to having to go into each course where we've used the embed code and re-do those per the new YouTube URLs.
Some ideas being tossed about include:
- Add a second audio file of timed descriptions to the screen and a simultaneous play action with the YT video
- have an alternative "accessible video" link to a 3rd party site that can house video and a separate descriptive audio track and transcript
Has anyone tried anything that works? This is for retrofitting existing YT videos - developing new things moving forward will be easy (just add the audio description in from the start).
Thx again, y'all :)
Hello Karen,
Your best bet would be to just add the DA to your Lectora title, you can control the DA audio via video actions or events.
-N