Hi ARLIS/NA Colleagues,

 

In September of 2021, I sent out an initial call for volunteers to help edit captions associated with legacy content on the Society’s Kaltura Channel. Thanks to the following individuals for responding to that call and using their time to improve the accessibility of ARLIS/NA’s content:

• Quinn Christie
• Claire Larson
• Courtenay McLeland
• Caetllonn Seadjwyc

There are still a large number of recordings that need edited captions to meet basic accessibility standards. I wanted to send out a second call for volunteers while also making an announcement. On Tuesday, May 10^th from 4-8pm EST I’ll be hosting a virtual edit-a-thon focused on improving captions for the Society’s Kaltura content. If you want to help with editing captions but need some guidance or accountability, save the date! You can register via Google Form here and read more about the event on this web page.

For those who can’t attend the edit-a-thon or simply want to work on their own, feel free to sign up for a particular recording on this Google sheet and edit away. Here are the steps you should follow:

1. Enter your name and email in column A next to the recording you would like to edit.
2. Download the .srt file in column D (“rawCaptionLink”).
3. Open the .srt in a text editor like TextEdit (Mac) or Notepad (Windows).
4. Play the media in Kaltura (link in column C) and edit any mistakes in the automatically generated transcript file. Do not change any timestamps in the transcript.
5. Save file and email the edited file as an attachment to [log in to unmask].

Thanks so much for reading and I hope to see some of you virtually for the edit-a-thon in May! I’ll also be in touch with all volunteers via email.

Sincerely,
Meredith