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.
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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
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