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Disability journalism style guide - word choice and etiquette. Accessibility references, resources, link pages, lists, various. Accessibility companies or accessilibity at companies/programs. Accessibility devices. Blind and online: Progress, not perfection, for visually impaired tech users ( - Internet ) Gayle Yarnall of Amesbury, Mass., is blind.

Blind and online: Progress, not perfection, for visually impaired tech users ( - Internet )

Consequently, photography is not a skill she ever anticipated mastering. "But the iPhone will tell you if the face in the viewfinder is centered, or if [the face] is small or large," notes Yarnall, who runs a lifestyle consulting firm called Gayle Connected. "Otherwise it's dumb luck, but I am getting pretty good at it. " Yarnall is taking advantage of a trend popularized by Apple four years ago. After decades when the industry emphasized graphical interfaces in computing products, effectively marginalizing users with impaired vision, Apple added an optional voice interface to its iOS operating system in 2008. Other platforms have followed suit, most recently Microsoft's improved Narrator voice interface in the new Windows 8 operating system. Accessibility in Tomorrow's Web - Tutorial Material. > WAI Presentations Tutorial leaders: Shawn Henry (W3C), Hans Hillen (TPG)

Accessibility in Tomorrow's Web - Tutorial Material

AccessiblePowerPoints%20text%20%281-22-09%29. RodneyBell.pdf (application/pdf Object) FiOS, U-verse add subs, and Verizon looks long on TVE. It's been a good start to the earnings season for AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) and Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ), which both reported solid earnings and continued growth in their consumer wireline products, especially their Internet and video plays.

FiOS, U-verse add subs, and Verizon looks long on TVE

Sign up for our FREE newsletter for more news like this sent to your inbox! AT&T grew its U-verse TV base by 200,000 customers, closing the first quarter with 4 million subscribers.

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Accessibilty policy, regulation, thoughts, editorial, et al. Country, region or community. Captioning. Video SEO: YouTube makes creating and translating video subtitles easy. About two years ago I wrote a blog post about a YouTube feature that allows you to automatically subtitle movies in different languages.

Video SEO: YouTube makes creating and translating video subtitles easy

Vertimo_dienos_Briuselyje.pdf (application/pdf Object) Translation - multi-lingual. Professionelle Übersetzungssoftware SYSTRAN 7 PREMIUM TRANSLATOR. Untitled. BURLINGTON, Mass., – April 27, 2012 – Nuance Communications, Inc.

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(NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced that the company has closed the acquisition of Transcend Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRCR), a leading provider of medical transcription and speech editing services. The combination of Nuance and Transcend will significantly improve the way patient data is captured, processed and used across the small- to mid-size hospital market, which comprises approximately 90 percent of hospitals in the U.S. Nuance will build upon Transcend’s market leadership among this group of hospitals, expanding its customer base through the delivery of voice-enabled and Clinical Language Understanding-powered (CLU) solutions that help healthcare organizations of all sizes achieve Meaningful Use and accelerate the transition to ICD-10.

The company will provide guidance on the financial impact of the acquisition in conjunction with its second quarter 2012 earnings release on May 10th. Corporate Solutions for Translation – Reverso Softissimo. Personal Translator 14, the award-winning translation software. Vocable Anglais - 614 karaoké. Brochures Commerciales. Machine Translation. Lucy Software provides automated translation solutions that are designed to facilitate the understanding of foreign languages for individuals and corporate users.

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Lucy LT, the cornerstone of these solutions, is a highly modular and scalable machine translation solution that is ideally suited for integration in corporate and institutional IT environments as well as in professional translation architectures of translation service providers. Currently some 35 translation directions are supported with more in preparation. Lucy Software offers solutions for the rapid and cost-effective translation of: META Seal of Recognition — META Multilingual Europe Technology Alliance.

Voxalead. Multilingual Semantic Web Workshop — META Multilingual Europe Technology Alliance. Our colleagues from the project Monnet are organising a workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web at the International Semantic Web Conference in Bonn, Germany (October 23/24): Multilingualism has become an issue of major interest for the Semantic Web community, in light of the substantial growth of internet users that create and update knowledge all over the world in languages other than English.

Multilingual Semantic Web Workshop — META Multilingual Europe Technology Alliance

Access to Videos. This article provides an overview of the issues people may have when accessing videos online, in theaters, and from DVD or Blu-Ray players, and the solutions that have been developed to address these.

Access to Videos

Barriers to Video Access Videos that include audio content such as dialog provide an obvious barrier to people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. What is less obvious is that videos also tend to provide significant content visually; this can be straightforward or subtle (e.g., a character’s eyes or body language may contradict what they are saying). Video accessibility for the HTML5 video tag » Go HTML 5. This is a submission to the W4A 2009 Web accessibility conference ( ).

Video accessibility for the HTML5 video tag » Go HTML 5

In the video, we explain the current status of video accessibility on the Web and means forward for HTML5. ThePlatform introduces one HTML5 player to rule them all — Online Video News. How to prepare your mobile video ads for HTML5. As HTML5 grows its share of the online video market, web video publishers are beginning to look for ways to monetize videos being played outside of the traditional Flash advertising methods.

How to prepare your mobile video ads for HTML5

But when someone watches a video in HTML5 mode, what should that experience be like? What's possible, given the current state of the tech? HTML5: Desktop versus mobile Before we begin talking about the challenges that face HTML5 video ads, it's important to acknowledge that video in HTML5 can behave very differently on the desktop than the same code running on a mobile device. HTML5 video accessibility and the WebVTT file format. Creating an HTML5 Website Strategy on Onlinevideo. Companies thinking of diving into HTML5 for their site will want to carefully consider all the advantages and pitfalls beforehand. Deutsche Welle, Germany’s national broadcaster, did. In a presentation to the recent Streaming Media Europe conference in London, Jan Petzold, a Deutsche Welle multimedia developer, gave the attendees plenty of room for though. For example, HTML5 is a big advantage to the visually impaired.

“Accessibility is a very important point. Visually impaired people, for example, might want to access your content and this has always been a problem for Flash, for example. One member of the audience asked if different browsers would render HTML5 sites differently, as has been a problem with previous versions of HTML. “Firefox sometimes handles things different than Internet Explorer.

To view the entire presentation, watch the video below. An in Depth Analysis of HTML5 Multimedia and Accessibility. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how HTML5 helps to provide you with several ways of presenting your media content to users. As a result, you’ll increase the availability of your media to users with different needs and requirements, making it more accessible.

This tutorial comes courtesy of the recently released HTML5 Multimedia book. Media and Potential Accessibility Issues. Web Accessibility for Designers. The focus of web accessibility is often on web development – the things that happen in HTML, CSS, or JavaScript after a site has been designed visually. Optimal accessibility should start much earlier, as part of the visual design process. We have created an infographic that highlights a few important principles of accessible design. Text Version Plan Heading Structure Early. Video accessibility enhancement for hearing-impaired users. Embedding hyperlinks in a HTML5 video player. Blog - Semantic Automation. Semantic automation is when user agents, such as browsers and screen readers, create meaning and relationships where the presented meaning and relationships are missing, ambiguous, or incorrect. In short, it’s applying algorithms to try and fix things that are probably broken.

It’s computers guessing for good. In a very simple example, it is Google’s “Did you mean…?” Functionality. It’s much of what allows iPhone’s Siri to use loads of data to hopefully figure out what the heck you’re asking it to do. As an example in the accessibility realm, if a form control does not have an associated label, the JAWS and VoiceOver screen readers will implement algorithms to auto-associate adjacent text to the control. Captioning Resource List. Captions Captions are text versions of the spoken word presented within multimedia. Captions allow the content of web audio and video to be accessible to those who do not have access to audio.

HOW TO: Add Captions To Your YouTube Videos. YouTubeCC. YouTube's Closed Caption 'Jedi': On cc Upgrades, Searchability And Why It's Personal. CaptionSync Automated Closed Captioning and Transcription Service for Broadcast Captions, Web Captions, and Video Search. CaptionTube: Home.

SorensonVRSVideos. Worldwide Premier Multimedia Conference. Researchers revolutionize closed captioning. (PhysOrg.com) -- Ever since closed video captioning was developed in the 1970s, it hasn't changed much. The words spoken by the characters or narrators scroll along at the bottom of the screen, enabling hearing impaired viewers - or all viewers when the sound is off - to follow along. Now a team of researchers from China and Singapore has developed a new closed captioning approach in which the text appears in translucent talk bubbles next to the speaker. The new approach offers several advantages for improving the viewing experience for the more than 66 million people around the world who have hearing impairments.

Website » Researchers Revolutionize Closed Captioning. Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus - An online thesaurus and dictionary of over 145,000 words that you explore using an interactive map. AT Resources/Links Info - Assistive Technology Industry Association. What are the best resources for AT! ATIA would like to provide the best possible set of resources available to our community. The best place to get these are from our website visitors. Please take a moment to send us a link to a resource you believe is worth highlighting. Home - Assistive Technology Industry Association. Enable - Work of the United Nations for Persons with Disabilities. DeafTechNews. Accessibility Forum Session Descriptions - Assistive Technology Industry Association. Taking Accessibility Mainstream: Making the Case for an International Society of Accessibility Professionals Tuesday, February 28, 2012 Session Descriptions.

Discussions - Accessibility_SIG. Geri Druckman, Knowbility. John Slatin AccessU, Knowbility. Home Page — World Institute on Disability. M-Enabling Summit - Conference and Showcase 2011. Resources. SSB BART Group - IT and Web Accessibility Solutions - ADA, WCAG, Section 504, and Section 508 Compliance Experts. Software, Training, and Consulting for Web Accessibility and Section 508 Compliance. Access: New Tools. Inc - Next Generation Technology and Services for a Global Digital Inclusion. TV Speak. Mobile Geo. Android for the blind. Code Factory: Making mobile phones and PDAs accessible to the blind and visually impaired. About WebAIM.

Welcome to the Accessible Technology Coalition. Low-Cost Broadband and Computers for Students and Families. Jobs at Apple - Job description. Jobs at Apple - Job description. Job Ops: Apple Accessibility Engineering Team - Accessibility_SIG. Jobs at Apple - Job description. Jobs at Apple - Job description.