Web Axe: web accessibility podcast and blog
Podcast and blog on practical web design accessibility tips.
What is web accessibility? | Email: web axe [at gmail] NOSPAM! dot com
Current Posts
About Captioning
Saturday, January 28, 2006
Topics include why captioning, methods of captioning, and challenges such as transcription.Download Web Axe Episode 15
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Previous Posts
- AJAX Hype?
- Accessible tableless forms
- More than 508
- Accessibility and Search Engine Optimization
- Frames and Accessibility
- Where Are We?
- Text, text, text!
- Unobtrusive Javacript (and the DOM)
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- Web Overhauls - tune-up your web site!
- Accessible Twitter - superior alternative to Twitter.com.
- 3.7crea.tv - web design and marketing blog.
- Refresh Detroit - regional group for web professionals.
- Detroit Podcasters Network.
- Website Design - seo friendly web design company.
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About Dennis
Dennis Lembree is the founder of web development company Web Overhauls, which specializes in web usability, standards, and accessibility. Follow Dennis on Twitter: @dennisl
About Ross
Ross Johnson runs a web design company (3.7 Designs) that takes a wholistic view on the web and art of constructing pages. They strive to be creative and unique. Follow Ross on Twitter: @3pointross
4 Comments:
Stumbled onto your blog/cast while googling "podcast accessibility." Given that podcasting is skyrocketing in popularity, and that part of its appeal is its immediacy, any thoughts on how to approach making the things accessible? The best I've been able to come up with is providing a link to an external transcript, but I'm not sure how that would work for someone subscribing via an rss aggregator.
This is made trickier by the fact that so many people "read" podcasts via iPods and other tiny devices; even if captions were attached, they'd be too small to read.
Until technology advances, electronic text is the best method I am aware of. That way any device that can read text files aloud would do the job for those who are blind. Obviously today's iPod won't work with that medium, but a PDA could.
An issue I've been having is transcription. This takes resources which many organizations do not have (including this podcast).
Been mute on my Podcast, but still listening to yours. :)
Flash Captioning, couple of ways:
1.) XML loads in with the Video, Flash video can use Cue Points to display the text loaded from XML.
2.) FLV files can be injected with META information called "xtra" meta, this can have text for the video, not sure how much text.
First idea is best.
Thanks for listening, Chris. Great ideas on the Flash captioning. Got any links?
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