I hate autoplay videos on web sites. Sometimes it is difficult to sort out which visual “thing” is playing since some sites contain so many advertisements. And while I am annoyed at this auditory intrusion, it can affect people with disabilities more severely. In addition to being difficult to find, many of these videos are […]
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Adding Captioned Video to an HTML5 page
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 […]
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 […]