Universal Subtitles is a subtitling service, which works with existing video resources such as YouTube. They use custom embedding code for rendering the subtitles on top of the video, and as such, the plain YouTube embedding feature in Viper’s Video Quicktags won’t show the subtitles. It’d be nice if VVQ could support embedding videos through Universal Subtitles, with the added accessibility that having subtitles on video brings to viewers.

It’s probably not a simple task, as Universal Subtitles isn’t limited to just YouTube, but even having just subtitled YT for starters would be great.

Just submitted Finnish translations for the three introductory videos. The process was a bit sluggish, but it was mostly due to my slow connection and poor video support in the browsers at my disposal. But the interface is pretty easy at least when I opted to download the subtitles, translate them locally and then upload the resuls and just do the review step in the browser. I appreciate the Universal Subtitles effort and really feel it’s important for the future of web video and global accessibility. Thank you!

Now a couple of remarks:

1. The ’edit title’ link next to the sharing box is slightly confusing: apparently, the title isn’t meant to be translated, but when translating a video, one expects such a link to mean just that. Which begs the question: why aren’t the video titles translatable? It’d be nice to also get a translated title when the video has translated subtitles.

2. This feedback form asks for my e-mail address even though I’m logged in and have thus provided my address already, so it’s redundant.