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From: sean keegan
Date: Wed, Aug 25 2004 1:11PM
Subject: musical note for SAMI captioning?
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Has anyone placed a musical note within a SAMI captioned Windows Media
presentation?

I have a situation where we would like to identify the caption with a
musical note, but am not having success. I have done a bit of Googling and
keep getting the same MSDN resource that talks about the need to identify
music, but provides no other support. Anyone else been successful (or not)
in doing this - and how did you do it?

Take care,
Sean

Sean Keegan
Web Accessibility Instructor
High Tech Center Training Unit for the
California Community Colleges
Cupertino, CA
408.996.6044

From: Jared Smith
Date: Wed, Aug 25 2004 1:50PM
Subject: Re: musical note for SAMI captioning?
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Sean wrote:
> Has anyone placed a musical note within a SAMI captioned Windows Media
> presentation?

I did some testing and you can add the ♫ or the ♪
character codes into the text of the .smi file and it should show up.

I'm not sure how this character code will be handled on non-English
computers, so that might take some testing. If you'd like to download a
sample .smi file with both character codes, you can get one at
http://webaim.org/temp/music.smi
You may need to save the file, then manually open with Windows Media
Player because Windows Media, Quicktime, and Realplayer all like to
fight over who owns the .smi file extension.

If it does not work, let me know.

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

From: Sandy Clark
Date: Wed, Aug 25 2004 1:54PM
Subject: Re: musical note for SAMI captioning?
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I found this in the google cache.
http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:Nl1YxeHeEawJ:captioning.robson.org/refe
rence/sami/samimusic.html+sami+caption+musical+note&hl=en

Since it basically shows Use of CSS, could you possibly add a musical note
to a background-image in the CSS?


Sandy Clark
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Has anyone placed a musical note within a SAMI captioned Windows Media
presentation?

I have a situation where we would like to identify the caption with a
musical note, but am not having success. I have done a bit of Googling and
keep getting the same MSDN resource that talks about the need to identify
music, but provides no other support. Anyone else been successful (or not)
in doing this - and how did you do it?

Take care,
Sean

Sean Keegan
Web Accessibility Instructor
High Tech Center Training Unit for the
California Community Colleges
Cupertino, CA
408.996.6044

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From: sean keegan
Date: Thu, Aug 26 2004 10:25AM
Subject: Re: musical note for SAMI captioning?
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Jared wrote:
>I did some testing and you can add the ♫ or the ♪ character
>codes into the text of the .smi file and it should show up.

It worked great. I will try some testing on non-English systems to see what
happens (luckily, we know the target machines for this specific situation).

Thanks much,
Sean

Sean Keegan
Web Accessibility Instructor
High Tech Center Training Unit for the
California Community Colleges
Cupertino, CA
408.996.6044