Re: [Accessibility-ia2] solution for video text descriptions

2011-07-06 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:40 PM, James Teh wrote: > On 7/07/2011 11:46 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: >> I'm looking at aria-live mostly for >> instructional purposes rather than for actually using it directly, >> because I don't think it's possible to use it directly. > I should clarify. I don't mean

Re: [Accessibility-ia2] solution for video text descriptions

2011-07-06 Thread James Teh
On 7/07/2011 11:46 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > I'm looking at aria-live mostly for > instructional purposes rather than for actually using it directly, > because I don't think it's possible to use it directly. I should clarify. I don't mean aria-live on the HTML side. Rather, I mean the way aria-

Re: [Accessibility-ia2] solution for video text descriptions

2011-07-06 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:53 AM, James Teh wrote: > On 7/07/2011 10:43 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: >>> I'm still not so keen on the pause >>> while description is catching up behaviour. Part of this is >>> design/implementation concerns; I'm very concerned about this tight >>> interaction between t

Re: [Accessibility-ia2] solution for video text descriptions

2011-07-06 Thread James Teh
On 7/07/2011 10:43 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: >> I'm still not so keen on the pause >> while description is catching up behaviour. Part of this is >> design/implementation concerns; I'm very concerned about this tight >> interaction between the screen reader and the system. ... > The comparison to

Re: [Accessibility-ia2] solution for video text descriptions

2011-07-06 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:23 AM, James Teh wrote: > On 7/07/2011 9:44 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: >> I've not seen any cloud-based solutions for text descriptions. >> While such an approach is possible, it relies on special services >> offered by providers and is therefore not something that a Web

Re: [Accessibility-ia2] solution for video text descriptions

2011-07-06 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Peter Korn wrote: > ** > Sylvia, all, > > My point with cloud-based TTS is... there are a number of TTS engines out > there. Some open source, some > commercial-but-free/cheap-to-use-over-the-web. Wouldn't it make for a much > tighter integration & more powerful

Re: [Accessibility-ia2] solution for video text descriptions

2011-07-06 Thread Peter Korn
Sylvia, all, My point with cloud-based TTS is... there are a number of TTS engines out there.  Some open source, some commercial-but-free/cheap-to-use-over-the-web.  Wouldn't it make for a much tighter integration & more powerful UI to have a media player that g

Re: [Accessibility-ia2] solution for video text descriptions

2011-07-06 Thread James Teh
On 7/07/2011 9:44 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > I've not seen any cloud-based solutions for text descriptions. > While such an approach is possible, it relies on special services > offered by providers and is therefore not something that a Web browser > can rely on for having their content rendered.

Re: [Accessibility-ia2] solution for video text descriptions

2011-07-06 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
I've not seen any cloud-based solutions for text descriptions. This would require uploading the video and the text description file to a cloud service, then have the could service render the text description file as another audio track on the video and change the timing on the video at the same tim

[Accessibility-ia2] solution for video text descriptions

2011-07-06 Thread Pete Brunet
For non-deaf/blind users are there significant advantages of Braille over TTS such that TTS would not be a viable solution for providing text descriptions to a Braille user?  My initial hunch is that there is not. I am asking because if cloud based TTS, as suggested