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From: Maxability Accessibility for all
Date: May 16, 2016 7:28PM

Hi there,
The below link may be interest especially the related links section.
http://www.maxability.co.in/2016/03/1-2-2-captions-prerecorded/
Thanks & Regards
Rakesh

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 2:52 AM, Jennifer Sutton < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Note to all:
>
> I've included a range of resources in here; those of you already familiar
> with this area might be less aware of the comparisons I've included and
> could find those valuable.
>
>
> Sean, I selected resources to offer you a range of the sites with
> information; in other words, there's often a lot more on each site than the
> link I've provided. My point is to "help you learn to fish" for yourself.
>
>
>
> I hope many besides Sean will find this response valuable; it took a fair
> bit of time to pull together.
>
> Sean,
>
> I'll leave your message partially in tact and try to give you a starting
> point for most of the questions.
>
>
> It's not capturing, though; I believe you're talking about captioning.
> That is unless you're talking about capturing content, such as via screen
> casts.
>
> I'll assume you mean captioning.
>
>
> WebAIM, itself, is always a good place to start:
>
> http://webaim.org/techniques/captions/
>
>
> Additional responses inline, beginning with JS
>
>
> Generally, however, I'd encourage you to take a good look around the 3Play
> Media site. While that company is a vendor, they do a commendable job of
> offering free seminars and quite a bit of free content to help folks get
> started.
>
> Here's a fairly randomly chosen place to start:
>
>
> http://www.3playmedia.com/2014/01/10/future-accessibility-video-captions-according-google-youtube/
>
>
>
> <snip>
>
>
> 1. Site that lists players that support close capturing?
> JS: Try this:
> http://www.webaxe.org/accessible-html5-media-players-and-more/
>
> Here are three comparisons:
> http://praegnanz.de/html5video/
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QJVcXx5hTWYBcJbHJD3DrL3hSFVbfy1VQFyADMtrDFY/edit?pli=1#gid=0
>
> and
>
> http://kensgists.github.io/apt/
>
> 2. The standards surrounding close capturing??
>>
>
> JS: Well, WCAG 2.0 has guidelines about closed captioning. But if you want
> more, I imagine this might help. But some of what'd be involved will be
> dependent upon the platform.
>
> The WCAG references are easy enough to find, so here's a link to another
> WAI project that may be less known to some on the list:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/media-accessibility-reqs/
>
> Here's a generally helpful collection of information:
> http://www.iheni.com/accessible-media-player-resources/
>
> Note, too, the BBC's guidelines..
> They are here:
> http://bbc.github.io/subtitle-guidelines/
>
>
>> 3. Tools used to create close capturing?
>>
>
> JS: I'll leave this to others. There are a lot of dependencies here, i.e.
> what platform you're using to create and what platform you'll be using to
> post.
>
> 4. Resources that explain the close capturing Technologies.
>>
>
> JS: This question is a bit vague for me to try to spend time guessing.
> Again, there are platform dependencies, browser dependencies, Flash, HTML5,
> mobile or not, etc. Once you learn more, maybe you can come back to the
> list and be more specific.
>
>
> 5. Which tools are accessible to screen readers, low vision, etc.
>>
>
> JS: Perhaps a better place for this question would be on the BATS list;
> maybe you could gather info from there, put together an article for that
> site, and post the link to it back here.
>
>
> Finally, here are a few other items that may help, generally:
>>
>
> http://www.dcmp.org/descriptionkey/
>
> http://www.uiaccess.com/transcripts/transcripts_on_the_web.html
>
> http://www.accessibilityoz.com/factsheets/video/video-factsheet/
>>
>
> http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/mag/services/captioning/faq/
>
> Best,
> Jennifer
>
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