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From: Sandra Andrews
Date: Mar 22, 2006 12:40PM

I am bringing up the issue because accessible podcasts/downloadable
audio files are not happening in education at least. Podcasts in
education are not accessible. There is no budget. I can't personally
legislate people to stop producing them. I can't personally legislate
people to use time consuming methods that require someone other than
the instructor to work on the project. :-(

Having noticed how easy GarageBand (new version) makes the addition of
video podcast chapters to which text could be added, I think that that
this might be something I could get podcast creators of my
acquaintance interested in. I suspect that any text version is better
than no text version.

The problem will lie in convincing instructors that this solution is
good for all of their students.

I am wondering if anyone else has tried adding text on images to
podcasts. I think I will. I think I like it better than the closed
captioning route, because I know that alas, Final Cut is also not a
trivial application to learn. If it doesn't work in iMovie, forget it
(if I am trying to convince instructors to

Sandy

On 3/22/06, Kynn Bartlett < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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:
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> 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:
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> http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/
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> Get MAGpie and make synchronized SMIL files out of quicktime movies here:
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> http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/
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> Do you need more information than this? I seem to be having some problem
> understanding exactly what you're looking for.
>
> --Kynn
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Sandra Sutton Andrews, PhD
IDEAL Director of User Support
http://ideal.azed.gov
University Technology Office
Arizona State University