- From: Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 11:31:11 -0500
- To: Shadi Abou-Zahra <shadi@w3.org>, Eric Eggert <ee@w3.org>
- Cc: wai-eo-editors <wai-eo-editors@w3.org>
On 8/19/2019 11:21 AM, Shadi Abou-Zahra wrote: > On 19/08/2019 15:06, Eric Eggert wrote: >> On 19 Aug 2019, at 14:52, Shadi Abou-Zahra wrote: >> >> On 19/08/2019 12:35, Eric Eggert wrote: >> >> On 16. Aug 2019, at 13:53, Shadi Abou-Zahra shadi@w3.org >> <mailto:shadi@w3.org> wrote: >> >> We were not planning audio-described versions of the >> evaluation videos >> >> That is kind of disappointing (unless the videos don’t need >> audio descriptions)… >> >> IMO they don't need audio descriptions but this is part of the >> scripts that are currently out for EOWG survey -- let me know if you >> disagree! >> >> but this sounds good. So, does AblePlayer pause the video >> and read out the descriptions or how does that work? >> >> The able player readme file says: >> >> Users can optionally set their player to pause when audio >> description starts in order to avoid conflicts between the >> description and program audio. >> >> https://github.com/ableplayer/ableplayer/blob/master/README.md >> >> On a more general note, we should come up with some guidelines >> on how we make videos accessible for our own resources. Maybe >> you, Shadi, can carve out some time to formalize/recommend an >> approach. >> >> Not sure we do more/different than in the upcoming media tutorial. >> Do you think we need more than that? If so, why (for who etc.)? >> >> For people creating videos for the WAI site: >> >> 1. Do we usually do sign language or not? >> 2. Do we use narrative or automatic audio description? >> 3. … >> >> So basically what is our baseline for creating WAI videos. Taking the upcoming media guide and applying it into a policy. >> >> Hope that helps. > > W3C already has such a policy, which we follow for our videos: > - https://www.w3.org/2008/06/video-notes.html > > Maybe this can be lightly updated when we have the new media tutorial. Yup. I already have an issue for it: https://github.com/w3c/wai-media-guide/issues/92 :-) ~Shawn > > Best, > Shadi > > >> 👋 Eric >> >> Thanks, >> Shadi >> >> 👋 Eric >> >> Thanks, >> Shadi >> >> On 14/08/2019 19:44, Shawn Henry wrote: >> >> Hi Shadi, >> After some work from Terrill and Eric with AblePlayer, >> it now reads out the text version of the descriptions >> very nicely! e.g., >> https://www.w3.org/WAI/perspective-videos/customizable/ >> It does it automatically for me -- even without a screen >> reader on. >> Unless I'm missing something, that means we can just >> have the VTT with description and do not need to create >> separate audio of the description. >> Maybe this will help some with current and upcoming >> video project budgets? >> Best, >> ~Shawn >> >> -- Shadi Abou-Zahra - http://www.w3.org/People/shadi/ >> Accessibility Strategy and Technology Specialist >> Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) >> World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) >> >> -- Shadi Abou-Zahra - http://www.w3.org/People/shadi/ >> Accessibility Strategy and Technology Specialist >> Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) >> World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) >> >> -- >> >> Eric Eggert >> Web Accessibility Specialist >> Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) >> >
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