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RE: Podcasting and Accessibility

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From: Juan Ulloa
Date: Feb 2, 2006 1:00PM

> 5. I find it interesting that, on WebAIM, nobody's brought up the
> issue of Web accessibility and podcasting, yet. Or did I miss it?

Like Jennifer pointed out, it looks like we've been focusing on the
non-web devices (like the i-pod). Most sites that do podcasting well
will also allow users to download each individual file without using the
actual RSS feed. So, for web accessibility purposes, you could simply
add a link to the transcripts of the podcast.

...Which leads me to wonder if you can include the text transcript (or a
link to it) from the podcast? A podcast without the audio is just an
RSS feed, right? So you could technically have a podcast that includes
the RSS feed. Or do you have to keep the podcast (for audio) and the
RSS feed (for text transcripts) separate?

Juan Ulloa