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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Aug 15, 2001 7:49AM

Shirley,
What sort of media do you need to caption. NCAM/WGBH offers MAGpie, which
is a tool for captioning and describing media. Version 1 (currently
available) can caption windows media, QT (temporarily converted to AVI for
captioning), and even some Flash, but doesn't work for Real (you can caption
the original .mpg/.avi/?? file that was used to create the real video
version and then combine the caption file with the Real video file).
MAGpie2 will deal with all the major media types, and will be in beta soon.
You can find out more about MAGpie and see examples at:
http://ncam.wgbh.org/richmedia
http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie
Let me know if I can be of any assistance,
Andrew
On 8/14/01 4:52 PM, Shirley Mattingly ( <EMAIL REMOVED> )
wrote:
> Dear Joel:
>
> RE: >My company has been working on ways to convert
> multi-media to a format with closed captioning for deaf users so our clients
> have access to accessible content - it's tough but by no means impossible.<
>
> Will you let us know when you are successful? :-)
>
> Thanks
>
>
>>>> <EMAIL REMOVED> 08/14/01 04:46PM >>>
> Michael;
>
> You know, I've never seen a list of HTML tags read by screen readers. I'm
> sure such exist, and I've asked screen reader manufacturers for information
> on them, but haven't got anything.
>
> The rule of thumb, though, that I've discovered is this: if the mark-up
> makes contextual sense to the content then the content is read.
>
> Consider the <li> element. In an <ul> it reads as 'bullet'. In a <ol> the
> actual digit is read. Tables are a bit trickier, and we're still wrestling
> with those issues - particularly with large complext tables that rely upon a
> solid understanding between the x and y axis of the table.
>
> Wow, I guess I'm not surprised you haven't encountered closed captioning but
> it's a little depressing. My company has been working on ways to convert
> multi-media to a format with closed captioning for deaf users so our clients
> have access to accessible content - it's tough but by no means impossible.
>
> Joel
>
>
>