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 […]
As excited as I am to see the changing of the guard in the White House, I can’t resist pointing out a few significant accessibility problems with the newly unveiled whitehouse.gov website. The good news: There’s a changing of the guard! So I’m hopeful and optimistic that these problems will be fixed. This isn’t just […]
Greetings from CALWAC 2009. I’m preparing for a presentation on multimedia accessibility, and figure this seems like as good a time as any to write my fourth in a series of blog posts describing my efforts to create a DO-IT Video Search application that is fully conformant to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web […]
Last week the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C’s) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 became a "W3C Recommendation", i.e., an official standard. In the current installment of my ongoing series on WCAG 2.0, I’m sharing my experiences with the following success criterion: 3.1.5 Reading Level: When text requires reading ability more advanced than the lower […]