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From: Trusz, Andrew
Date: Jul 12, 2004 4:36AM

Wrong Andrew. You want Kirkpatrick. See the message below.

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WebAIM Discussion List Digest 10.07.2004.
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Subject: Re: quicktime accessibility
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 10:14:34 -0600

Andrew,

What's the best (or most widely accpted) way to handle a text link to an
external viewer. From what I understand, quicktime doesn't really support
that type of functionality at this stage. The only way I've been able to
find is a link to a .qtl file which then references the movie. Is that the
way to go?

Thanks again.

Pony

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Subject: Re[2]: quicktime accessibility
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 10:39:48 -0600

> What's the best (or most widely accpted) way to handle a text
> link to an external viewer.

There are two ways to open a Quicktime movie in the stand-alone
player. One is to link to a page that has an embedded placeholder movie
which tells the stand-alone movie to open and play the movie you want.
This is an extra step for the end user and because there is an
embedded movie, it may be confusing to end users, especially those
using AT.

The second method involves using the .qtl file. This is the most
simple method, though the user must have Quicktime 5 or newer (not
typically an issue). The .qtl file is simply a text file that contains
the reference information for the movie you want to open.

Both methods are detailed at
http://www.webaim.org/techniques/captions/quicktime/7#opening

Jared Smith
WebAIM (Web Accessibility In Mind)
Center for Persons with Disabilities
Utah State University

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Subject: Re: Re[2]: quicktime accessibility
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 13:21:12 -0600

The way I do this is to use QuickTime reference movies (which a qtl file is
a type of). Apple makes a tool called "makerefmovie"
(http://developer.apple.com/quicktime/quicktimeintro/tools/) which allows
you to create a very small .mov which you link to directly. QuickTime opens
the .mov, which then opens the movie. This is helpful when using a qt smil
movie or an mpg that you want to open in QT, and Jared's instructions show
how to make the movie open in the QT player (if you use a qtl file, the
server configuration is particularly important - if the server isn't
configured to handle a qtl file the user may just see XML).

If you link to the mov in an anchor tag, there is the possibility that the
user's browser will try to play the media in the browser - this is user
configurable, but few users will modify this setting. However, I haven't
found too much difficulty with this, so I generally link directly via an
anchor tag to the mov.

AWK


On 7/9/04 12:25 PM, "Jared Smith" wrote:

>
>> What's the best (or most widely accpted) way to handle a text
>> link to an external viewer.
>
> There are two ways to open a Quicktime movie in the stand-alone
> player. One is to link to a page that has an embedded placeholder movie
> which tells the stand-alone movie to open and play the movie you want.
> This is an extra step for the end user and because there is an
> embedded movie, it may be confusing to end users, especially those
> using AT.
>
> The second method involves using the .qtl file. This is the most
> simple method, though the user must have Quicktime 5 or newer (not
> typically an issue). The .qtl file is simply a text file that contains
> the reference information for the movie you want to open.
>
> Both methods are detailed at
> http://www.webaim.org/techniques/captions/quicktime/7#opening
>
> Jared Smith
> WebAIM (Web Accessibility In Mind)
> Center for Persons with Disabilities
> Utah State University
>
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> To subscribe or unsubscribe, visit http://www.webaim.org/discussion/
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Subject: Re: quicktime accessibility
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 14:08:39 -0600

Sounds great.

Thank you both for all your help.

Pony

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Subject: Re: navigating applets
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 21:48:43 -0600

Thanks for your help