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Accessihacking Online Video - my presentation for BarCamp Brighton

I just finished my sesssion at BarCamp Brighton about making online video more accessible by allowing for sensible, time-based commenting which could become a poor man’s captioning in a second stage. In general it is just showing off my hack of the YouTube player using their API.

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  1. Arjan Says:
    March 15th, 2008 at 7:40 pm

    Nice work on this. I didn’t know much about the YouTube API but this gives some opportunities.

    Video accessibility is a hot subject at this moment. The ministry web sites over here use a custom made player based on Jeroen Wijering’s FLV Media Player. The player supports audio descriptions and captions. It tests if the visitor has JavaScript combined with Flash, Quicktime or WMP; and if so it displays a player for that. If not, a text alternative is displayed.

    Some interesting pages that extremely well illustrate the possibilities of all this: Description of the video player (and an English variant, a bit less detailed); Making video accessible.

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