Back to Videos and accessible subtitles, a couple of people on another 
list pointed me to the KM Player, a free program found at
www.KMPlayer.com

This video player has a setting that exposes subtitles to the TTS, so 
the screen reader can read them. Blind Cool Tech has a very helpful 
podcast, which was done in 2009. I've installed the software.

The good news is that it's now a lot more accessible than it was back 
when the podcast was recorded. To find the TTS setting described in the 
podcast, press the right windows key while on the main screen, up-arrow 
to Preferences, then right-arrow once and down-arrow to TTS. I don't 
remember if you press enter at that point or hit tab. anyway, the option 
you want to check says something about screen readers.

The bad news is that I'm having trouble getting it to work. the video 
itself stalls after about 10 seconds. It plays fine on a different video 
player, so I'm still trying to figure out whether the problem is the 
software itself, some incompatibility with something on my system, or me 
not knowing how to use it. I'll keep trying when I'm feeling less 
frustrated.

A few additional notes gained from the podcast, the other list, and my 
own Googling ...

* Some subtitles are actually part of the DVD. They're referred to as 
hard subtitles, and they're inaccessible.

* some subtitles are text files included in the movie folder. They have 
extensions like srt and ass (I don't remember all of them). They're 
referred to as soft subtitles, and they're accessible; in other words, 
you should be able to read them with your screen reader and the KM Player.

* You can read soft subtitle files, presumably by copying the file to 
another folder, changing the extension to txt, and opening it in a 
notepad app. I haven't experimented or gotten full details), but the 
person who mentioned it said he does it, so it most likely still works.

If anyone else plays with KM Player and can share wisdom about the 
problem I'm having, getting the video to play, please share.

I haven't played much with Jaws' convenient OCR. Results haven't been 
great, but it's been a while, so may I'll try again.


On 10/6/2015 5:02 AM, Deborah Kendrick wrote:

> Just wondering out loud as I've not used it myself, but would the OCR function in JAWS read them?
> I've been wondering about this sort of thing myself because the father of a deafblind client asked me recently if there was a way she could read the captions from movies on her braille notetaker.
> Different problem, but similar.
> And no, I did not know of a solution.
> But wouldn't that be wonderful -- if you could just sit there in the movie with everyone else and read those subtitles for yourself that were wirelessly received by, say, your braille display or iPhone?
> Eagerly awaiting all solutions from the gurus on this list!
>


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