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Re: Question about Screen Readers/captions

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From: Carol Foster
Date: Aug 16, 2001 9:20PM

Thanks for this link, Kristin, and for everyone else's useful comments on this
and other subjects.
When I view this video, and many others, with my Windows machine with large
fonts, the captions are cut off at the bottom, making the ones that extend to
more than 1 line unreadable. I have discussed this with Andrew Kirkpatrick
from NCAM, who was very helpful and sent me this interesting link about
cross-platform caption issues:
http://ncam.wgbh.org/richmedia/crossplatcaps.html
Am I correct in understanding that captions have to be created on a Windows
machine with large fonts in order to be read by the widest audience?
Thanks again everyone,
Carol
Kristin Evenson Hirst wrote:
> Here's a helpful online video -- "Introduction to the Screen Reader" with
> Neal Ewers of the Trace Research Center at
> http://wiscinfo.doit.wisc.edu/ltde/access/ewers.htm It's a QuickTIme file
> -- 12 mb -- that is closed-captioned. There's also a link to a transcript.
>
> Kristin Evenson Hirst, Hirst Logics website development
> http://www.hirstlogics.com/
> PO Box 733, Iowa City IA 52244 -- e-mail: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> phone: 319-621-0943
> fax: 815-352-1685
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