Tag: auditory processing disorder

marsh-tit:

auditory processing disorder is a bit like that joke where a deafening lorry passes every time a character says something important

but instead of vehicle, its any gust of wind, any clinking plates, dogs barking, opening or shutting doors, laughter on the other side of the room, plastic bags rustling, ticking clocks, your own footsteps & your breathing & chewing

and instead of happening with comedic timing, it covers up 70% of every conversation. to the point where you have to just accept you cant hear the person two feet away from you, and nod along anyway, and hope youre not agreeing to something disasterous

hellgarite:

You know what bugs me? When you’re watching TV, hearing vague garbled trash rather than words, you ask to turn subtitles on and some absolute shitstain of a hearing person is like “nah but I’ll turn it up!”
Thanks! Now I’m just hearing LOUD garbled trash and getting overstimulated!!!

marcinthelotus:

Please stop adding comments, jokes etc. to captions on YouTube videos.

I’m looking at you Markiplier and Jacksepticeye fans.

Please stop. It makes them less accessible.

Also, please contribute and review captions if you can.

Try to make the captions not too long over a long period of time or too short for people to be able to read and in the right place in the video.

Please don’t phonetically spell out words Jack says in his natural accent to show his accent. There’s no need to, and it makes it harder to read.

Please don’t jump back and forth between all caps and lower case a lot. You can use exclamation points to show excitement or do things like [yelling] [screaming] [louder].

Please don’t add keysmashes or excessively long lines of letters like “soooooooooooooooooo”, especially if it’s part of a longer caption.

Type what they say, not what they should have/meant to say. AKA don’t correct grammar, stutters, etc.

Be descriptive of non-words, sound effects (especially ones they react to or comment on) or what accent/tone they are speaking in. e.g.
[Southern accent] and welcome to Turmoil! /
[clap], [thump], [ticking], [ring ring], etc.
[laughs]

But please don’t add descriptive captions for visual cues like what kind of face Mark or Jack are making or overly wordy and subjective descriptive captions e.g. [really happy cute little kid voice]

BUT MOST OF ALL

stop adding comments, jokes etc. to captions

That’s what the video comments section is for.

also read and share Rikki Poynter’s #NoMoreCraptions campaign

jackwynand:

it’s so weirdly common to be rude to people who need subtitles or want subtitles as if it’s some kind of nuisance to have subtitles, but honestly? normalize having subtitles on everything. overall it can help people with language barriers who can read better than they can listen to a language, it helps people with comprehension issues, it helps people who have trouble hearing, it helps in general so whatever you’re watching isn’t interrupted by someone asking what someone just said, just put subtitles on! what the hell!

thehoh-society:

NEW VIDEO!!!!  “YOU CAN HEAR THAT, BUT NOT THIS?” [CC AVAILABLE]

In order to better understand how D/deaf and Hard of Hearing people and people with Auditory Processing Disorder/Deficit operate, it’s essential to take an in-depth look at what sound is and how exactly hearing works with the human brain.  We hear with our brain, not our ears.  Hearing is not always consistent.  It’s unfair to hold D/HH/APD people to an unrealistic standard with the presumption that people can only be profoundly deaf or completely hearing, with no middle ground.  The reality is, hearing in and of itself is vastly complex.  There’s so much we don’t understand about how the brain works.  Let’s continue to educate ourselves on these matters.

Reblogs appreciated.

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

(I’ve already posted this as a comment on youtube, but I’m putting it in the tags as well because I’d like as many people as possible to see it.)

As someone with an auditory processing disorder, I’d like to first thank
the people who are contributing to closed captioning on Jack’s channel,
as it helps me enjoy the content without having to focus Super Hard on
what’s being said. c:

But I would also like to address something I’ve seen happening a lot, even after many people pointed it out and Jack addressed it on his tumblr: the subtitles are not a place for you to add “funny” comments! They’re supposed to be a faithful transcript of the audio for people who can’t process or hear it properly. As such, they should be easily readable, and comments like “(are you okay Jack)” that are not actually part of the audio are often more confusing than funny to me. The example I just gave is kind of obviously someone’s comment (the obviousness heavily depends on context), but I’ve often had to rewind because something seemed off, only to realise that what I thought was being said was actually someone’s comment on the video. :/

To help you make the subtitles more readable, I’d advise you to think of how dialogue would be written in a book: no smileys, no “author’s notes” on what people are saying or doing, proper capitalisation and punctuation… Describing in the subtitles what can be seen on-screen (as opposed to noises like barking, giggling, beeps, music, etc. which are generally described between brackets in professional CC) is also not necessary, unless the action happens in the middle of a sentence (because in that case, it helps the viewers situate what’s being said in relation to what they can see happening – YMMV on this, it’s a fine balance between what should absolutely be specified and what doesn’t need to be).

That being said: thank you for contributing to closed captioning! As I said, it helps me (and many other people) a lot. Just, please please think of all of us who actually need the subtitles to understand what’s happening, before you add something that would only enhance the experience for people who don’t need captioning.