- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@uiuc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 20:30:11 -0600 (CST)
- To: Tina Holmboe <tina@greytower.net>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
The two main issues with video accessibility is providing text captions for audio content and audio descriptions of visual information. SMIL [1] provides support for both these features and is supported by Real Player and Quicktime, although Real Players implementation seems to be easier to use and provides a means for the user to control the rendering of the captions and audi descriptions. MAGPIE [2] is a free utility that can be used to create text captions. Some captioning tutorials can be found at: http://cita.rehab.uiuc.edu/new/multimedia/index.html Jon [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-smil20-20010807/ [2] http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/ On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Tina Holmboe wrote: > > On 12 Feb, John Foliot - WATS.ca wrote: > > > > Check out Open Office (www.openoffice.org). This *free* suite can open MS > > Word docs, and is available for the following platforms: > > Whilst I am both a user of, and an advocate for, the OpenOffice suite, > I'm afraid the above is only partially true. > > The OpenOffice suit *can* open MS Office documents. However, it can't > open *all* Word documents. It can also write Word documents, but MS > Word can't always read them. Of course, *MS Word* can't always open MS > Word documents, or read documents created with other MS Word versions > ... > > It's a bit of a mess, really. I've had clients who could not open > their one month old Word documents with a new version of Word. > > I'd claim that the Sec 508 violation's death is grossly exaggerated. > Distributing a Word document means, basically, that whether or not > you've got OpenOffice -or- MS Office opening it is uncertain. > > -- > - Tina Holmboe Greytower Technologies > tina@greytower.net http://www.greytower.net/ > [+46] 0708 557 905 >
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