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From: Westlake, Garret
Date: Thu, Feb 15 2007 1:50PM
Subject: Online video with captions
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My name is Garret Westlake and I am the coordinator of Disability
Services for Volunteer State Community College outside of Nashville, TN.
Our college is experimenting with streaming as well as video for
download for use with a number of college applications. Does anyone
have any recommendations on the best method for producing online video
with captions? I have reviewed the resources listed on WebAIM.com, but
was hoping to hear from those who have experience in publishing online
video with captions in order to determine the best program/route. Thank
you.
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Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 2:32 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: [WebAIM] Seeking WAVE feedback and ideas[Scanned]
WebAIM is developing a new version of WAVE -
http://dev.wave.webaim.org/ This web accessibility evaluation tool has
been quite popular and we want to make it even better. We are
developing a new evaluation engine that will be used with WAVE for
checking HTML accessibility. This will allow us to develop a more
robust tool that can run both server-side and client-side. A WAVE
Firefox toolbar will allow WAVE checking of password protected,
dynamic, javascript driven/AJAX, and local documents). This engine can
also be used with other tools for checking any number of other
document formats, such as ODF and XUL.
We already have identified some bugs and several new accessibility
tests, but as we explore the future of WAVE, we would appreciate any
feedback, ideas, or recommendations you have. What works well with
WAVE? What doesn't? What features would you like to see? How can the
reporting be made more understandable? Are you aware of any bugs
(besides the fact that it incorrectly flags many form labels as being
missing)?
Feel free to e-mail me off-list, or on-list if you'd like to discuss
publicly.
Jared Smith
WebAIM.org
From: John Foliot - Stanford Online Accessibility Program
Date: Thu, Feb 15 2007 2:00PM
Subject: Re: Online video with captions
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Westlake, Garret wrote:
> My name is Garret Westlake and I am the coordinator of Disability
> Services for Volunteer State Community College outside of Nashville,
> TN. Our college is experimenting with streaming as well as video for
> download for use with a number of college applications. Does anyone
> have any recommendations on the best method for producing online
> video with captions? I have reviewed the resources listed on
> WebAIM.com, but was hoping to hear from those who have experience in
> publishing online video with captions in order to determine the best
> program/route. Thank you.
Garret,
There are a number of "roll-yer-own" solutions to caption videos, but in a
production environment they can be time consuming. I have recently started
to set up some "work-flow processes" here with an outsource company who
produce captioned media.
Automatic Sync Technologies (AST)[http://www.automaticsync.com/] have, as
the name would suggest, automated much of the process of creating captioned
video ready for streaming. They support all of the major formats, and are
great folks to work with.
Pricing is reasonable, and goes down with volume purchases; they have
educational pricing models available. If you have the transcript that goes
with your video, turnaround time is blazingly fast - if you need to have AST
send out the video for transcription (they can do this for you), then factor
roughly 72 hour turnaround.
This is all relatively new for me here, although I know AST have established
accounts with numerous other educational institutions, so they are set and
ready to assist. I am encouraged by what they do, and am in the process of
finalizing work-flows here on campus to take advantage of their service.
Hope this helps
JF
From: smithj7@peoplepc.com
Date: Thu, Feb 15 2007 4:20PM
Subject: Re: Online video with captions
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Florida Blind uses closed captioning. We paid Jacksonville Community
College to make the videos knowing up front that we wanted the captioning.
If you haven't got info yet, I could contact the District Administrator in
Jacksonville that arranged for them and get contacts to the Community
college folks.
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Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 3:41 PM
Subject: [WebAIM] Online video with captions
> My name is Garret Westlake and I am the coordinator of Disability
> Services for Volunteer State Community College outside of Nashville, TN.
> Our college is experimenting with streaming as well as video for
> download for use with a number of college applications. Does anyone
> have any recommendations on the best method for producing online video
> with captions? I have reviewed the resources listed on WebAIM.com, but
> was hoping to hear from those who have experience in publishing online
> video with captions in order to determine the best program/route. Thank
> you.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
> [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of Jared Smith
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 2:32 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: [WebAIM] Seeking WAVE feedback and ideas[Scanned]
>
> WebAIM is developing a new version of WAVE -
> http://dev.wave.webaim.org/ This web accessibility evaluation tool has
> been quite popular and we want to make it even better. We are
> developing a new evaluation engine that will be used with WAVE for
> checking HTML accessibility. This will allow us to develop a more
> robust tool that can run both server-side and client-side. A WAVE
> Firefox toolbar will allow WAVE checking of password protected,
> dynamic, javascript driven/AJAX, and local documents). This engine can
> also be used with other tools for checking any number of other
> document formats, such as ODF and XUL.
>
> We already have identified some bugs and several new accessibility
> tests, but as we explore the future of WAVE, we would appreciate any
> feedback, ideas, or recommendations you have. What works well with
> WAVE? What doesn't? What features would you like to see? How can the
> reporting be made more understandable? Are you aware of any bugs
> (besides the fact that it incorrectly flags many form labels as being
> missing)?
>
> Feel free to e-mail me off-list, or on-list if you'd like to discuss
> publicly.
>
> Jared Smith
> WebAIM.org
>