On this page the following entries were made in the “July, 2008” time-frame.
Archive for “July, 2008”
The impact of disposable video on accessibility
Alex Reid has some interesting things to say about the “disposable” nature of web video. In a video response to a post by Paul Bradshaw at Online Journalism Blog, Reid considers the value and nature of web video at a time when anyone can create, store, edit, remix, mod, share, and delete video cheaply and [...]
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Captions on the side (literally)
I’d be interested in seeing the results (if any) of usability tests for NBC.com‘s video player, which has built-in support for closed captioning on full episodes. Captions are displayed on the right side of the video player and automatically scroll either up or down. Rather than occupying a layer within (or on top of) the video display itself, the captions scroll on a separate canvas. The user can control the vertical direction of the captions, and each caption occupies its own text box.
NBC’s non-traditional approach to captioning raises some pretty obvious usability red flags [...]
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Accessible podcasting — A preview
I just finished an article-length webtext on accessible podcasting. The webtext 1) is a critique of the dominant approach to podcasting, an approach that assumes (mistakenly) that everyone involved can hear, see, and move well enough to manipulate a mouse, and 2) describes a set of solutions for making podcasts (both audio and video) universally [...]
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