[CEUD-ICT] Accessibility resources for Accessible Digital Media [WAS "Accessible DVD released today by Office of Ombudsman on making a complaint under the Disability Act (2005)"]

[Donal J. Rice]

Hi All,
thanks again for the lively discussion on this topic.  It certainly helped 
me focus on the issues and pit falls.

As it happen, I have been asked by the Irish Internet Associations Social 
Media Working Group to give a quick 15 minute overview on making online 
audio and video accessible to all.  the half day seminar called "Audio 
Video Culture: Behind the Scenes of audio and video content online" will 
take place next Thursday afternoon. [1]

As usual I need a bit of help tying to decipher what the best resources 
out there are to base the presentation on and provide as references.  Can 
anyone point me to 'good' resources on making video and audio accessible 
online.  Types of resources I am researching are:
1. Primers providing an overview of the issues and accessibility issues 
typically encountered
2. Examples of good practice of audio description. extended text 
transcripts, captioning
3. Technical guidance on how to create and embed AD, ETT and captions, 
what file types and players to use
4. online blogs and forums that cover this kind of stuff

Below you will find  what my initial trawl has produced.

All donations gratefully received.  I will make the final presentation and 
lists of resources available on the www.universaldesign.ie website for all 
to use.

Making Video Accessible by the longtail [2]
Web Captioning Overview by Webaim [3]
Software for Creating Captions by Webaim [4]

Thanks in advance,
Dónal.

[1] 
http://www.iia.ie/events/event/246/audio-video-culture-behind-the-scenes-of-audio-and-video-content-online
[2] 
http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player/22/making-video-accessible
[3] http://www.webaim.org/techniques/captions/
[4] http://www.webaim.org/techniques/captions/software.php




Barry McMullin <barry.mcmullin at dcu.ie> 
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On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Mark Magennis wrote:

>> As moderator of the list I think
>> it only fair if I feedback to the Ombudsman office the issues and
>> suggestions made here unless there are any reasonable objections.
>
> They've changed it and it works for me now.

Hum ... no different for me though.  There is now an "embed"
element within the "object" - not sure if that was there
before. But anyway, this embed still seems to specify a windows
media player plugin, it still doesn't work on my ubuntu linux +
firefox, and, much more to the point, there are no other
fallbacks - specifically, no plain text content, and no link to a
transcript.  (And they have the gall to stick a "WAI-AAA" logo -
sic! - at the bottom: talk about debasing the currency...)

Best - Barry.

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Barry McMullin,
Director, The Rince Research Institute (www.rince.ie):
   "Researching Innovative Engineering Technologies"
Dublin City University
   phone: +353-1-700-5432
   web: http://www.eeng.dcu.ie/~mcmullin/
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