RE: Flash 8 and text resizing

Yep, using ems is the easiest way to achieve text and content resizing.
Looks good.

The captioning is interesting - it is too bad that you can't use the
FLVPlayback component - we've recently provided a set of skins for this
component that support captioning
(http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/2006/10/captionskins.html). In a
quick test it looks like the cc button you have doesn't work beyond the
current caption - when the next caption comes up the captions reappear
even if I turned them off with the button.

AWK

> -----Original Message-----
> From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Roberto Ellero
> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:33 AM
> To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org; Slatin, John M
> Cc: Alessio Cartocci
> Subject: Re: Flash 8 and text resizing
> 
> 
> Hi,
> I take the opportunity of this post about Flash and text 
> resizing to point out a technique used in my new Website 
> about Multimedia accessibility, video content quality and 
> social networking:
> www.webmultimediale.org.
> 
> This technique is useful to make Flash content resize when text is
> resized: it works with CSS (not with Javascript), and the 
> Flash player is useful to synchronize captioning with an 
> external SAMI file.
> So the movie is completely accessible, and using standard 
> technologies (in addition there are obviously transcript and 
> audiodescription).
> 
> These two very interesting and innovative aspects, resizing 
> of the video region and the Flash captioning, was developed 
> by Alessio Cartocci (www.casoart.com), email in cc, a friend 
> and author of the www.webmultimediale.org community.
> 
> A short description by Alessio Cartocci:
> "It is possible to resize Flash object applying em unit to a 
> div container. Css also will set object width and height to 
> 100% of container, in order to scale it correctly as text 
> (and div) is resized.
> 
> This player streams audio/video content (flv) from a Red5 
> server using rmtp protocol and gets captions from a SAMI file 
> loaded as xml.
> To avoid known compatibility problems with Red5, the player 
> doesn't use Flash components like MediaPlayback or 
> FLVPlayback - and so their cuepointing techniques - to 
> synchronize captions with the movie. In play/pause mode an 
> actionscript function is running in background to compare 
> constantly movie timecode with related attributes on SAMI sync node.
> Closed captions are placed in their text area, dinamically 
> loaded by player.
> This is a beta version: future improvements will look at 
> errors handling, controls optimization and SAMI css/html tags 
> support."
> 
> A pair of movies using the techniques:
> 
> Hamlet's Monologue:
> <http://www.webmultimediale.org/cms/index.php?module=pagemaste
r&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=146>
> 
> Jonathan Livingston
> seagull:<http://www.webmultimediale.org/cms/index.php?module=p
agemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=147>
> 
> If you see the code, in this pages the flv streaming is fully 
> working without Embed tag.
> 
> There will be, in a short while, a complete tutorial on 
> www.webmultimediale.org, with English translation.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Roberto Ellero
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 2007/1/6, Slatin, John M <john_slatin@austin.utexas.edu>:
> >
> >
> > Hello, all.
> >
> > On the Thursday call there was some discussion about 
> whether resizing 
> > fonts would affect Flash content. The link below has some 
> interesting 
> > information about techniques to make Flash content resize 
> when text is 
> > resized. It also talks about the Accessibility Panel in Flash 8.
> >
> > http://www.wait-till-i.com/index.php?p=374#ct
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> > John
> >
> > "Good design is accessible design."
> >
> > Dr. John M. Slatin, Director
> > Accessibility Institute
> > University of Texas at Austin
> > FAC 248C
> > 1 University Station G9600
> > Austin, TX 78712
> > ph 512-495-4288, fax 512-495-4524
> > email jslatin@mail.utexas.edu
> > Web http://www.utexas.edu/research/accessibility
> >
> 
>

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