HTML5 Media and Accessibility presentation
Today, I was invited to give a talk at my old workplace CSIRO about the HTML5 media elements and accessibility.
A lot of the things that have gone into Ogg and that are now being worked on in the W3C in different working groups – including the Media Fragments and HTML5 WGs – were also of concern in the Annodex project that I worked on while at CSIRO. So I was rather excited to be able to report back about the current status in HTML5 and where we’re at with accessibility features.
Check out the presentation here. It contains a good collection of links to exciting demos of what is possible with the new HTML5 media elements when combined with other HTML features.
I tried something now with this presentation: I wrote it in a tool called S5, which makes use only of HTML features for the presentation. It was quite a bit slower than I expected, e.g. reloading a page always included having to navigate to that page. Also, it’s not easily possible to do drawings, unless you are willing to code them all up in HTML. But otherwise I have found it very useful for, in particular, including all the used URLs and video element demos directly in the slides. I was inspired with using this tool by Chris Double’s slides from LCA about implementing HTML 5 video in Firefox.
on March 1st, 2010 at 2:00 am
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on March 13th, 2010 at 11:11 am
Here’s another nice demo of video, canvas, and analysing a color histogram in real-time: http://www.robodesign.ro/mihai/blog/html5-demo-video-and-canvas
on March 13th, 2010 at 11:13 am
And the latest ambilight demo: http://www.splashnology.com/blog/html5/382.html
on March 16th, 2010 at 8:31 pm
Just came across a new demo for combining canvas, svg and video to project video into a container with different dimensions: http://techfandu.blogspot.com/2010/03/world-first-projective-html5-video.html .