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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. 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.
There is a central authority on the Web that issues guidelines on how to assure accessibility, under the auspices of the World Wide Web Consortium. Unlabeled images Unlabeled Flash animations Misused tables. Accessibility in Tomorrow's Web - Tutorial Material. > WAI Presentations Tutorial leaders: Shawn Henry (W3C), Hans Hillen (TPG) Sections below: Part 1: Fundamentals, Part 2: WAI-ARIA and HTML 5 Part 1: Fundamentals The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) develops strategies, guidelines, and resources to help make the Web accessible to people with disabilities. Getting Started with Web Accessibility Accessibility - W3C The first place to start for a short introduction to Web accessibility, including brief examples of web accessibility, and links to more information.
The Web is fundamentally designed to work for all people, whatever their hardware, software, language, culture, location, or physical or mental ability. Introduction to Web Accessibility Introduces Web accessibility and links to additional resources. Essential Components of Web Accessibility Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization Designing for Inclusion How People with Disabilities Use the Web Guidelines & Techniques Addresses software that creates Web sites. 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.
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. At Verizon, its FiOS TV service added 180,00O accounts to give it 4.4 million subscribers. Both companies added even bigger numbers to their respective Internet user rolls, with Verizon bumping up some 193,000 subscribers and AT&T seeing a whopping net gain of 718,000 subscribers, bringing its total to 5.9 million users. The growth comes at a time when hybrid TV offerings--in the form of over-the-top delivery of products like Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX), Hulu, Vudu and Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN)--are increasingly gaining traction with consumers.
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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. Recently, due to a renewed interest in localization of video clips, I had the opportunity to play around with YouTube’s Closed Captioning feature. Does it work? Well the automatic stuff does not work well but YouTube does give you some nifty tools that make it easy to translate movie subtitles.
And with a little work you can get decent results. Why should you subtitle your own videos? A lot of companies upload video clips on YouTube for corporate marketing, product tutorials, instructional videos and such. Creating the subtitles After you have uploaded your video clip, access YouTube’s Video Manager and select Edit-Captions. In the Captions pane, find the track called English: Machine Transcription. You will most probably need to edit the machine transcription file as YouTube does not do a very good job of it. Translating the Subtitles. Vertimo_dienos_Briuselyje.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Professionelle Übersetzungssoftware SYSTRAN 7 PREMIUM TRANSLATOR. Untitled. BURLINGTON, Mass., – April 27, 2012 – Nuance Communications, Inc. (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. Transcend Services, Inc. Corporate Solutions for Translation – Reverso Softissimo. Personal Translator 14, the award-winning translation software. Fraunhofer-Studie: Das renommierte Fraunhofer-Institut hat den Personal Translator ausführlich auf seine Effizienz und Handhabung getestet. Die Ergebnisse zeigen eine deutliche Zeitersparnis von über 40%. Unsere Beispielrechnung verdeutlicht, was das Ergebnis der Fraunhofer-Studie konkret an Einsparungspotential für Ihr Unternehmen bedeuten kann.
Anwenderberichte:Top-Kunden wie Siemens, OCÉ, ASWO, Leaseplan, Veith, Valeo und Textron, die bereits seit längerer Zeit den Personal Translator einsetzen, berichten über ihre Erfahrungen mit maschineller Übersetzung. Kundenliste:Der Personal Translator hat sich bei nationalen und internationalen Unternehmen als zuverlässiges Übersetzungswerkzeug tausendfach bewährt. Die Linguatec Kundenliste spricht für sich selbst. Benutzermeinungen:Doch auch kleinere Unternehmen und Privatkunden setzen begeistert den Personal Translator für Übersetzungen ein. META Award:Linguatec wurde mit dem META Seal of Recognition ausgezeichnet. 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.
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: E-mailsWeb sitesHelp desk contentDocumentation Lucy LT solutions are not stand-alone, rather they can be integrated in your processes and unlike free internet translation services, Lucy LT translates in secure-mode, so protecting the confidentiality of your texts.
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. This process has been accelerated due to initiatives such as the Linked Data initiative, which encourages not only governments and public institutes to make their data available to the public, but also private organizations in domains as far apart as medicine, cartography or music.
These actors publish their data sources in the languages they are available in, and as such, in order to make this information available to an international community, multilingual knowledge representation, access and translation are an impending need. The 2nd Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web. 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. 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). This video information may be inaccessible to people with visual disabilities, and hard to interpret for some people with cognitive disabilities. The mechanism for playing videos may also provide barriers. Alternative input solutions. Captioning and Audio Description Captioning provides a text equivalent of important information being presented in an auditory fashion.
Accessible Remote Controls Accessible Video Players. Video accessibility for the HTML5 video tag » Go HTML 5. This is a submission to the W4A 2009 Web accessibility conference ( ). In the video, we explain the current status of video accessibility on the Web and means forward for HTML5. We propose a solution for associating textual captions with video and explain it on the example of Ogg Kate, SRT and DFXP.
We then explain further challenges such as Sign Language, Audio Annotations, and more general types of time-aligned text, e.g. Karaoke, music lyrics, ticker-text, transcripts, or annotations with hyperlinks. 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.
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. Here are some of the primary differences: * Platform-specific As you can see from the table above, some concepts that advertisers take for granted, such as video ads that display a webpage when clicked, are not possible on smartphones. Technical challenges As the major ad networks are beginning to offer support for HTML5 video ads, they face several important challenges.
This presents some interesting problems. Industry roundup. 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. Because if you put a Flash object on your website, it’s basically an alien object to the browser,” said Petzold, noting that HTML5 also helps search engines recognize media content. “Compared to Flash and Silverlight, either for search engines and for visually impaired people, HTML5 is a far better option.” “Firefox sometimes handles things different than Internet Explorer.
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 I’d strongly encourage you to think about making your content accessible... When thinking about the users who will be attempting to view your media content, you might make a number of assumptions: Users will view your content on a desktop, laptop, tablet, or phone.Users will have some way of listening to the audio of your content, be it via headphones or speakers.Users will be able to understand the language in which you deliver the media.Users will be able to successfully download and play your media.
Users who have a sensory impairment that prevents them from listening to your content’s audio or viewing video. 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 Ensure all content and design fits into a logical heading structure.
Consider Reading Order The reading order should be the same as the visual order. Provide Good Contrast Be especially careful with light shades of gray, orange, and yellow. Use True Text Whenever Possible True text enlarges better, loads faster, and is easier to translate. Watch the Use of CAPS All caps can be difficult to read and can be read incorrectly by screen readers. Use Adequate Font Size Font size can vary based on the font chosen, but 10 point is usually a minimum. Remember Line Length Don't make it too long or too short. Design Link Focus Indicators. 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. When computers guess, the results are often not very good. Automation and Evaluation I had switched my primary evaluation platform from JAWS to VoiceOver some time ago because until recently, VoiceOver did not implement semantic automation.
Automation and Conformance And there’s more. Captioning Resource List. 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. ACM Multimedia 2012 | Worldwide Premier Multimedia Conference.
Researchers revolutionize closed captioning. 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. Home - Assistive Technology Industry Association. Enable - Work of the United Nations for Persons with Disabilities.
DeafTechNews. Accessibility Forum Session Descriptions - Assistive Technology Industry Association. 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. Home | Deque Systems | 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 | 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.