Building access to global information through subtitles, captions, and localization
We’ve had our heads down for the past month and are very close to releasing an alpha version of Universal Subtitles. The alpha will give everyone access to a preview version of the subtitling widget and the Universal Subtitles website; we’re aiming to release around June 15th. We’ll have many more details here as soon…
Do you know of an organization that needs to get video subtitled? We’re getting ready to roll out a testing site soon, which means people will be subtitling stuff. We’d love to focus some of this effort towards a good cause. If you know of an organization (or work for one) that could use subtitles,…
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This year we were fortunate to be able to participate in the Mozilla Labs Design Challenge, a “series of events to encourage innovation and exerimentation in user interface design for the Web”. The Collaborative Subtitling Design Challenge was an opportunity to get our early prototypes in front of designers and usability experts who could propose…
We were flattered when we found this video on YouTube. It’s by a young woman named Caro, who is very enthusiastic about our project and goals. It’s really motivating to see someone get excited by something you’re working on. Interestingly, one design challenge participant suggested using video as a medium for people (who want subtitles,…
Public media, in the sense of PBS and NPR, in the United States, and many public broadcasters in other parts of the world, usually have missions that are a perfect fit with the goals of captioning, subtitling, and translation. In addition, they often have very supportive audiences that would enjoy helping to make their content…
Mozilla Drumbeat, which is supporting Universal Subtitles as one of their premier open-web projects, is helping us raise funds to build these tools. They are now matching every donation dollar-for-dollar up to $25,000! They are even promoting the project on the front page of mozilla.org right now! We are very eager to get your help…
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We think this is so important, we added a permanent page to the site. In the near future, we’ll go into more detail about why accessibility matters so much to us (and for the internet), but for the moment I’ve copied the text from the page here: Accessibility is the primary motivator behind Universal Subtitles….