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From: Kynn Bartlett
Date: Mar 22, 2006 10:40AM

On 3/22/06, Sandra Andrews < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> I am looking for practicality, ease of use, affordability, some sort
> of standard method that can be made available to instructors and will
> function as proof of concept for the ones we would like to convince of
> the fact that accessibility is necessary.


I'm confused why there's a separate issue with podcasting that is viewed
different from audio content on the web.

Podcasts are just audio (and sometimes video, but VERY rarely) files
distributed via RSS/Atom.

Therefore, you do what we've always done with sound content:

1. At a minimum, provide text equivalents -- in this case, a transcript of
everything on the podcast.

2. Secondly, provide a synchronized text stream. For this you use the SMIL
language.

Read about SMIL here:

http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/

Get MAGpie and make synchronized SMIL files out of quicktime movies here:

http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/

Do you need more information than this? I seem to be having some problem
understanding exactly what you're looking for.

--Kynn