This is the last post in the series, Creating and Captioning a Screen Reader Demo. I have 3 versions of my video file in .mp4, .webm, and .ogv format. I have a timed text track file in WebVTT format. Now I just need to put them together on an HTML5 page. This part is fairly […]
Posts from February 2015
Creating and Editing Captions
This is the fourth in a series of posts about Capturing and Captioning a Screen Reader Demo. I should start by saying that there is a difference between captions and subtitles although the terms are often interchanged. Subtitles just provide the actual spoken text while captions provide a thorough description of all of the sounds […]
Converting File Formats
This is the third in a series of posts about Capturing and Captioning a Screen Reader Demo. I have a recording of a screen reader demo that I want to post on the Web using the HTML5 <video> tag. The current format is .avi. In order to have the video work in both Windows and […]
Recording a Screen Reader Demo
This is the second post in a series on Capturing and Captioning a Screen Reader Demo. Recording the demo means capturing the video on the screen as well as the audio from the screen reader and my verbal explanations. Since I am using the JAWS screen reader I will be working in Windows 7 via […]
Capturing and Captioning a Screen Reader Demo
I spoke at a conference where I wanted to give a demo of using a web application with the JAWS screen reader. Since I am not an expert screen reader user, I find that it is easier to record the demo rather than trying to give it live. With a recording, I can also post […]