Hi Mary, First let me express my gratitude to WGBH and NCAM for the MAGpie desktop captioning tool downloadable from <http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/>, and for all the interesting info and resources that can be accessed from the same page.
About: > > AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! Unite to Advance Online Media Captioning Better late than never, of course. But it's a good thing several didn't just wait for these giants to decide that there was a market for Online Media Captioning, but have already developed several offers. To quote just 2 that are already widely used: Mojiti.com (that lets you caption a video hosted on one of many different platforms) and DotSub.com, where people can upload a video and then have it captioned either by the community or by captioners of their choice. Both enable the download of the captioning texts, that can then be re-used with a desktop video software, or simply copied as text in a site. Moreover, I know of an almost completed project by Alessio Cartocci that will be even more polyvalent (about Alessio Cartocci and the Webmultimediale.org project, see Kathryn Hill's "ASL & subtitles together in online media", October 4, 2007 9:20 pm <http://www.stonedeafpilots.com/?p=71>). So of course it is great that the juggernauts are showing interest too. It would be even greater if Yahoo, beyond: > "Yahoo! applauds the collaborative effort led by WGBH to create a solution > for making online > video content accessible to all. Because the need for online captioning will > continue to grow > across the Web, Yahoo! is excited to join with our colleagues to develop > quality responses to > this accessibility challenge. " > - Victor Tsaran, Accessibility Program Manager, Yahoo! also showed its commitment to respond to accessibility challenges by first responding to the the Yahoo! Accessibility Improvement Petition at BlindWebAccess.com asking them to make available an audio alternative to their CAPTCHA. Or simply got rid of the of the obnoxious and useless thing as suggested by several of the signatories: in exactly one week as I am writing this, the comments to a single post in a podcast I manage have been targetted 536 times by a spamming bots, all spamming attempts coming in bouts with 5-7 sec between each spam, all in spite of the CAPTCHA for the comments (and all blocked - fortunately - by the antispam filter of the platform). And it would be great if Google refrained from buying existing online captioning solutions and from slowing them down with their statistics feature. Best Claude -- Claude Almansi v. Cantonale 22 CH-6532 Castione cell. +41 (0)76 401 85 69 gruppo di lavoro Noi Media www.noimedia.org Swiss Internet User Group www.siug.ch _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
