I am guessing that people are arguing against captioning because of the extra cognitive load that the text would create..
Could concerns be quelled by including a CC button in the flash presentation - so this is optional? (like at the site below) http://www.peepandthebigwideworld.com/videos/ Janna -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ryon Brown Sent: March 13, 2008 12:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IxDA Discuss] closed captioning Thanks for all the really great threads. They help more than you know! My question: I am working on a long-term project that involves creating a series of SCORM (shareable content object reference model) and 508 compliant online training pieces for a government customer. Our latest project is an animated software demo with zooms, captions, cursor recording, etc. The movie is a SWF played in an HTML shell. I recently pressed to add a expandable/collapsible closed-captioning option. I did a little leg-work to find out the feasibility of this feature. I discovered that it could be done with relatively little pain and suffering. The problem is, for my life, I can't convince anyone else of the virtue of this idea (I'm the new guy here). I'm prior military service myself and am coming from the perspective that since this product will mainly serve a military audience, there may be situations where the computer used may not have audio capabilities or the location where it is viewed may not be conducive to open-speaker use. I figure it's a risky bet to hope everyone in the latter situation will also have headphones on them. :-) Is there a precedence for this kind of thing? (*I know this is a basic accessibility issue - and even could enhance usability in a way - but I mainly want to figure out if closed captioning is the best way to handle this...) Please, any comments either way would help! Best, Ryon Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] (my profile email) [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.s., we do have a downloadable pdf transcript of the lessons also, but I want to do more... ------------------------------------- Ryon Brown Training Technologist (a new usability advocate with very little actual experience) ADG:CREATIVE www.adgcreative.net ------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
