Comments on: Video Accessibility for Firefox

By: pvagner

pvagner — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:35:41 +0000

Well, initially I have no suggestions because I do need to look what’s really going on first, but let me thank you for what are you going to do during the following weeks or months. As an audio geek I was following ogg vorbis development from the user’s perspective for some 4 or more years. I am also using vorbis when doing some private recordings here and there. I am interested in Mozilla’s browser because of their dedication to accessibility. Now when xiph and mozilla are “joining forces” I really feel it might lead to success at least from my personal perspective. You know I find it surprising hunting for an audio related news in the xiph’s mailing lists and reading planet-a11y.net brings me to this resource.

By: silvia

silvia — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:23:53 +0000

Hi Marvin,

Thanks for the feedback and the description of what you suggest is useful. We are definitely looking at captions and audio anotations.

In fact, we are thinking about having audio annotations as text to make them more easily usable.

They can then be either transferred to a text-to-speech (TTS) reader and played on a separate channel (possibly even in faster speed), or displayed as braille, or translated into a different language, or even indexed by a search engeine. All of this would be in addition to the actual sound track of the video.

Would that make sense to you?

Silvia.

By: Marvin Hunkin

Marvin Hunkin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:12:22 +0000

Hi. well, as a website developer, and doing my own hobby site and also got some student projects which i did at tafe, as looking for part time it employment via http://www.freewebs.com/startrekcafe, and also a programming student, using visual basic.net 2008, i am also interested in accessability for video and audio, as downloading video tracks, via u tube, and sites like nine msn, for example, i went to the video about what the ladies were wearing on the wide world of sports link, and jaws, that is the screen reader i am using for internet explorer 7 and firefox 3.0, and the web visun accessible plugin, which allows the user to be able to hear contents of captures, use download and install the softwar ena and get an invite at http://www.webvisun.com i think.
a firefox addon, which when you install it, and use firefox 3.0, which i have done say on http://www.gmail.com, for signing up, it allow you to send the capture to the site, using alt control 6 or 7 on the number row of the keyboard, sends it to the site, then sends it back to your browser, you then are able to hear the capture word, then copy and paste, so this is useful, for such sites that use capture. but i am digressing. it would be handy, if there was audio narration or audio description, which are in some dvds where you have a separate audio track, and some one describing the non dialog sense, say like under special features on a dvd, like spiderman 3, you can go to special features and audio description. like the video was listening to today, it would be handy if the non dialog cences in the video, wer audio descrbied, and would have liked to know what the people were wearing, the ladies, and what colour, and what type, shape, etc. you get the idea. just my thoughts as a blind computer user, using the web with assistive technologies.