Hi Leslie, you've touched upon a very interesting issue. In the TV world, it is often a legal requirement for broadcasters to make sure that their content is accessible to anyone. This, for example, is the relevant regulation in the UK:
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv/ifi/codes/ctas/ I guess that videos in commercial websites are covered by the same accessibility rules as the rest of the content on a website. Of course, it's often more about the company's conscience (and realization that they are losing potential customers) and less about the regulations. Actually, in the UK many of the TV commercials are broadcasted with subtitles, even though they are explicitly excluded from the above regulation. On the other hand, the typical person who makes and uploads funny videos to YouTube doesn't probably have much motivation or technical knowledge of adding subtitles. Just had a quick look in YouTube, most of the videos that have subtitles only have them in order to translate a foreign language. In an era where a lot of the content consumed on the internet is user-generated, are people with disabilities missing out? Is there something that can be done to prevent this? Any ideas from other people on the list? Regards, Alex On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 4:50 PM, LESLIE GILBERT, BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEXIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all- > > What about folks with a hearing loss? I have a decent amount of hearing loss > and I work for a large financial/technology firm in Manhattan. The thing is, > I always see videos or screens that provide naration of some sort without any > captioning. The lack of captions render the product useless to folks like me. > I'm curious, do you know of websites that provide captioning when using > videos? The only one I know of is Adobe Photoshop (www.adobe.elementk.com). > While going through training, you can click on the button on the bottom of > the video section and the captions appear. This is similiar to the concept > being used for television - you can turn the captions on and off. I believe > the television world started to capitionalize everything back in the late > 1980s. Frankly, I'm surprised this did not catch on in the internet world. > Thanks! > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Vicky Teinaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > At: 2/14 10:51:27 > > Hi all, > > I'm working on a web project where the client is sold on using voice on the > site i.e. having narration for explanations. > > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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
