Hi all, Has anyone heard of Sorenson Communications? They handle free communications for deaf, etc. - http://www.sorensonvrs.com/svrs. From what I can tell, it looks like a good way to try out. Did I mention it's free???
Kevin -----Original Message----- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Spellacy, Michael Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 1:05 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Video Accessibility Help Every little bit helps, John. These look like good places to start. Thank you. If anybody else has anything to share please keep it coming. I stumbled upon a site called subply.com which will create caption files (in various flavors) based on the audio track in video. It seems like a pretty decent service. Sent from my iPod On Jun 15, 2010, at 9:13 PM, "John Unsworth" <john.unswo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Your first port of call might be the WCAG2 guidelines, found here; > http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/#media-equiv > > I also did a quick search for "accessible online video best practice" > and this link to a PDF from the US Department of Health and Human > Services exactly on the topic of "Online Viral Video Requirements and > Best Practices" might be useful to you. It is dated Jan 2010 and > covers the departments use of YouTube (and other video providers) and > importantly Section 508 compliance. A good deal of the document > regards brand guidelines as much as technical requirements, but in > that regards questions about dimension and file size and type might be > useful knowledge. This was the PDF link; > www.cdc.gov/socialmedia/Tools/guidelines/pdf/onlinevideo.pdf > > Accessibility advocate Joe Clark I recall became very interested in > the question and quality of captioned video. > > From my search above this resource of links from the Victorian > Government in Australia might also be useful; > http://www.egov.vic.gov.au/website-practice/online-video-content.html > > I'm not that knowledgeable about Flash, but to your questions I recall > seeing a presentation from Adobe regards CS4 and that their Audio > program, whose name escapes me, could extract Caption text and that in > turn that file could be brought into Flash. However I thought it was > an XML file. I also understood that using ActionScript you could > program the import of the XML file, but the last time I used Flash was > at school and it was Flash8 and given the presentation I mentioned it > might be a tool built in?? > > Of course how this would be handled in HTML5 I'm less clear on:) > > Didn't really answer your questions directly, but I hope some of > this is useful. > > Cheers, > John Unsworth > >> >> ******************************************************************* >> List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm >> Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm >> Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org >> ******************************************************************* >> >> > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
