Making Video Accessible

Wed, 20 May 2009 13:16:15 +0000

Nick Freear described an approach to making video more accessible through captioning of video. This can appear to be a solved problem with youtube supporting the use of captions (but only added by the author and not accessible), the OU producing transcripts - but not captions, a range of accessible players - but none doing the whole job. Nick's suggested way forward is collective approach demonstrated through dotSUB a site where anyone can add their own captions and multiple captions are possible.

Multimedia alternatives demonstration

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:59:17 +0000

I'm happy to say that there is now an alpha web service to look at,

maltwiki.org

This demonstrates some of the key features:

A small collection of captioned video - dialogues can be styled to indicate the speaker, for example by aligning and colouring the captions.
Transcripts where captions are not available.
An accessible Flash media player - currently only for captioned video.
A multi-lingual user interface - French (hover on the buttons).
Full integration with oEmbed, so that a blogger or content creator need only write,
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- this is converted by the blog software and the MALT Wiki web service into the necessary embed code. This same syntax can be used to embed Slideshare presentations, Flickr photos and so on.

Cloudworks: Multimedia accessibility for learning

Making Video Accessible

Multimedia alternatives demonstration