Re: [WSG] Video Accessibility Help
We have successfully used FLash CS4's ability to caption vids, which are pulled in from an XML file. THey looked very nice, with an on/off widget in the controls. We also provide a transcript web page for each vid. On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Spellacy, Michael michael.spell...@tmp.com wrote: Hi List, I was just wondering what some of the best practices were these days for creating accessible video on the web. A few questions: 1) I know some Flash players can pull in captions, but which ones to use? 2) Are there any services out there that will scan your audio track and create a captioned file for you (.srt, etc.) to feed into your player? 3) If you do succeed in creating captioned video do you also have to create a transcript of the video for those users who may not have Flash installed (or may not be able to access Flash using JAWS)? 4) Would providing just a transcript of the video, be all that is needed to meet basic accessibility requirements? Thanks in advance! I love this list! Regards, Michael Spell Spellacy http://www.spellacy.net @spellacy *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *** -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
Re: [WSG] Video Accessibility Help
FYI, I just looked at the site we used this on. Apparently something changed with the latest FLash player, and the caption on/off is broken, but the captions default to on. On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Tom Livingston tom...@gmail.com wrote: We have successfully used FLash CS4's ability to caption vids, which are pulled in from an XML file. THey looked very nice, with an on/off widget in the controls. We also provide a transcript web page for each vid. -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
Re: [WSG] IE6 Finally Nearing Extinction [STATS]
If I may... if you're happy with your web experience in IE6, then you need do nothing IMHO. Eventually, and I imagine IE9 will speed this up, developers are going to stop giving as much care to IE6 as they do now - if they do at all. Your web experience in IE6 will begin to dwindle to text-only pages. Sure, the info is there and If that's all you want, you'll be fine. ;-) Depending on the complexity, a lot of extra work is done to give IE6 users a similar experience to a more capable browser. It is where I work. Extra work may = extra money paid by the client or eaten by the dev. My point is that issues with IE6 are not JUST about bells and whistles, but the very page structure itself. I've seen a number of web pages already that serve unstyled pages to IE6 because it's most likely just easier and more cost effective. Sure, experienced devs know how to avoid IE6 pitfalls, and have gotten good at it. But there comes a time where IE6 does in fact hold back progress, and it's going to start to lose that kind of stranglehold on web development. My 2ยข... keep the change. Ed, This is not aimed as a personal comment, just my general thoughts about browsers. You are only seeing this from a 'Browser' point of view, what about the numerous people who have an elderly system that is not even capable of running something like IE 8. I still use 3 P3 machines with Win 2000, I can't go above IE 6 without upgrading the OS. XP will run on a P3 machine, but for sure neither Vista nor Win 7 will work. I can no longer buy a new copy of XP, therefore to upgrade my browser I would have to buy a new system. -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
