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Re: Read Captions in a display braille?

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From: Jim Allan
Date: Aug 2, 2007 7:40AM


There is one open source player AMIS (pronounced amee) that will the proper
braille drivers also available will display a SMIL movie with audio,
captions in scalable font sizes and output to a braille display...all in
real time.
AMIS is available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/amis/

Jim Allan, Webmaster & Statewide Technical Support Specialist
Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
1100 W. 45th St., Austin, Texas 78756
voice 512.206.9315 fax: 512.206.9264 http://www.tsbvi.edu/
"We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." McLuhan, 1964

> -----Original Message-----
> From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]On Behalf Of Jorge
> Fernandes
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 5:55 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Read Captions in a display braille?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Thank you very much for your inputs!!
>
> I particularly appreciate the position of WCAG 2.0 WG. With respect
> of your opinions course I'm more confident with WG position because:
>
> ## They said: "The preference is given to captions and audio
> descriptions because, except those who are deaf-blind, users that we
> have heard from want and prefer those accommodations."
>
> In Portugal I'm not wrong if I state that 99% of movies on TV are
> originaly English, French, or other languages and have portuguese
> captions. In DVDs the portuguese captions are also the rule - here
> Tom Hanks don't speak portuguese like we have in the neighbor Spain
> where the movies are all in spanish. Until today portuguese blind
> people can't follow the captions in braille.
>
> I really think that will be very useful if User Agents can deliver
> the captions to blind users in braille.
>
> Ok. I speak about TV experience and not web. But if I put the same
> content on web I will have the same problems. Imagine a NewsTV with
> some pieces in English or Russian. Also in news, in Portugal, is
> usual put portuguese captions in these pieces.
>
> ## They said "Also, whenever you go to a full text transcript you
> lose much information and experience, and you lose the ability to
> experience the content together. Also you lose the ability to
> experience together".
>
> Maybe this answer to your question about: why captions in braille?
> Seems me a better experience to a blind person follow an English
> movie reading the captions in portuguese braille.
>
> And the position of WG is similar of do not accept a double
> construction website: one "normal" graphic version and one
> "accessible" in text. Like you know this is not accessibility. The
> position of WG is more "Design for All" than an transcription file
> alone; more 1 Content and Various gracefullies transformations.
>
> And I believe in User Agents, and seems me easier made ONE
> transcription file from the MULTIPLY pieces content synchronised
> together than the opposite.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jorge Fernandes
>
>
> On 31 Jul 2007, at 15:53, Jared Smith wrote:
>
> > On 7/31/07, Moore, Michael < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> >
> >> I strongly agree with the transcript solution that you suggest. The
> >> transcript can provide the following advantages to deaf/blind
> >> users and
> >> others.
> >
> >> In short, whenever possible a transcript should be included with
> >> multimedia to ensure access for everyone. If you are going to go
> >> through the effort to create captions and audio description you
> >> alread
> >> have all of the content needed to create a really good transcript.
> >
> > Very well stated. Of interest is the fact that transcripts are not
> > currently required in WCAG 2.0 unless you are seeking Level AAA
> > conformance. Captions are required at Level A, but it seems the
> > working group sees transcripts as much less important and a less
> > useful 'accommodation' for people with disabilities despite the fact
> > that they are the *only* mechanism that some people (particularly the
> > deaf-blind) can use to access multimedia content. See my comment and
> > the working group response on this issue at
> > http://trace.wisc.edu/bugzilla_wcag/show_bug.cgi?id=2251
> >
> > Jared Smith
> > WebAIM
> >