- From: Greg Gay <g.gay@utoronto.ca>
- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 11:59:03 -0400
- To: Mike Williams <mikew@macromedia.com>
- CC: Wendy A Chisholm <wendy@w3.org>, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Mike We've done a little work with captioning and Flash. We ended up using SMIL and feeding the Flash movie through Real player. As far as we know there is not a way the sychronize captions using Flash 4 alone, though it may be possible with Flash 5. http://www.websavvy-access.org/resources/real_demo.html Wendy A Chisholm wrote: > Hello Mike, > > I responded to a private mail you sent to me a while back, but I will also > respond publicly to this e-mail. > > > > 1. In the context of Checkpoint 1.4 [0], Cynthia Shelley asked [1], "Does > > > anyone know if Flash supports synchronizing captions?" > > > >This is possible via several different methods... Some are fairly simple, > >some are a bit more convoluted.. I would be interested in maybe making an > >example site illustrating this, maybe with someone on the working group (Mr. > >Neff?)... > > An example site would be excellent! Is anyone interested in volunteering > to work with Mike on this? > > > > 2. In July the working group published "Non-W3C Techniques for Web Content > > > Accessibility Guidelines 1.0" [2]. It has two Flash related > > > examples. What do you think of them? Can you improve upon them? Are > > > there others you can suggest? The current suggestions only discuss what to > > > do if the user does not have a Flash plug-in enabled or installed. Have > > > you investigated how to make Flash directly accessible? In other words, > > > have you tested how to make a Flash presentation usable by a person with a > > > screen reader? > > > >We have tech notes available and several white papers documenting most, if > >not all of these concerns.. but it would be great to get all of the concerns > >together and shoot them into one central place... What steps do you > >recommend to get this ball rolling? > > Where are these documents? Who is interested in reading these and then > figure out how to include the information in the non-w3c technologies > techniques for wcag? > > Thank you, > --wendy > -- > wendy a chisholm > world wide web consortium > web accessibility initiative > madison, wi usa > tel: +1 608 663 6346 > /-- -- Greg Gay Project Manager Centre for Academic and Adaptive Technology University of Toronto 416 978-4043 ICQ 9020587
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