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 […]
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Free Tools for Captioning YouTube Videos
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 […]
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Playing with YouTube Captions
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 […]
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FAWM, RPM Challenge, and Man With Small F
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 […]
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 […]