Introduction I will be giving a talk at John Slatin AccessU on May 9, 2016 on HTML5 Accessibility. I will be discussing the new elements in HTML5 that help to support better accessibility. I was doing some research on how well some of these elements are supported by the various screen readers and thought I […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Disappointed with whitehouse.gov a11y
A colleague pointed me to the new whitehouse.gov site on the day of the inauguration. I was proud that he had already noticed that the site wasn’t particularly accessible – that means my a11y message is getting through! With all of the talk on the news about the new administration embracing the internet I expected […]