Yesterday Kyle Weems, aka CSSquirrel (who incidentally I just recently learned is a fellow ‘Hamster) discussed in his blog a couple of strategies for adding long descriptions to his comics. One of the longest-running debates in all of web accessibility is how best to provide long descriptions of images on the web to people who […]
While you’re contacting your congressperson and encouraging them to support a public health care option, please take a moment to also encourage them to support HR 3101, the “21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2009”. This bill was introduced by Massachusetts Rep Ed Markey on June 26 and is currently in committee. If […]
We at the University of Washington are working toward documenting a workflow that would support student interns in adding captions to the university’s growing collection of YouTube videos. There are now a dozen or more tools that support the authoring and editing of captions, and over the last couple of weeks I’ve been exploring several […]
I’ve been playing this week with closed captions on YouTube. YouTube announced support for closed captions in August 2008, and followed that announcement with this demonstration video. This inspired us at DO-IT to create our own YouTube Channel and to start uploading captioned videos. YouTube supports captions in either of two formats, SubViewer (.sub) or […]
Well, I’ve done it. February may be the shortest month of the annual dozen, but this year it was jam-packed. Among copious other activities, I managed to record 16 new songs and produce an album. I did this along with thousands of other artists around the world who participate on either of two web sites […]