Accessible Web Video: JW Player Controls
http://www.wac.ohio-state.edu/examples/jwplayercontrols/
Category: flash
CNET TV is now captioning its Flash video using the DFXP caption support in Flash CS3. It’s quite a slick implementation (select the CC icon). View Tech Predictions for 2008 for an example. This technique is mentioned in Web Axe’s Podcast #53: Interview with Andrew Kirkpatrick, Adobe’s leading accessibility guru.
Dennis and Ross speak to the renowned Andrew Kirkpatrick, a leader in accessibility and product development for Adobe.
Download Web Axe Episode 53 (Interview with Andrew Kirkpatrick)
Andrew Kirkpatrick is An Event Apart speaker, technical editor for A List Apart, and he’s co-authored a few books. Topics in the conversation include:
- the development of the MAGpie captioning program
- AIR-Boston and Knowbility
- Captioning in Flash
- books he’s worked on
- his role at Adobe
- his experience web conferences
More Links
- Adobe Accessibility
- Adobe Accessibility Blog
- Timed Text (TT) Authoring Format 1.0 – Distribution Format Exchange Profile (DFXP)
- An Event Apart Speaker–Andrew Kirkpatrick
- Creating Accessible Flash Experiences (eSeminar)
News Links
18 Questions for Niqui Merret and Aral Balkan on Flash and Accessibility is a great post from Wait till I come, the blog of web developer and Javascript expert Christian Heilmann. Chris interviews Flash experts Niqui Merret and Aral Balkan on Flash Accessibility. Questions include:
- Can you elaborate what accessibility means in terms of Flash?
- Is ActionScript a necessity to achieve accessibility?
- Can Flash interact with screenreaders? If so, how?
- Can pure Flash applications ever be as accessible as HTML solutions?