RE: accessible streaming

What about TVWorldwide?  Anyone know what techniques they use to make
videos accessible?

Terrie

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Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 9:30 PM
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Subject: Re: accessible streaming



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/

Received on Friday, 13 February 2004 13:09:02 UTC