Website » Researchers Revolutionize Closed Captioning By Lisa Zyga, Physorg.com 3/22/2012 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 researchers, Meng Wang from the Hefei University of Technology in China and colleagues, won the Best Paper Award for their work on the new closed captioning method from the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Multimedia Conference in October 2010. “The whole technique was motivated by solving the difficulties of hearing-impaired viewers in watching videos,” Wang told PhysOrg.com. Moreover, all of these features can be automatically implemented without any manual intervention.
ProfHacker Welcome to the latest installment of “Accessibility in a Digital Age,” a roundup of links to information about creating and using digital resources that are accessible to all people. In a thought-provoking essay, Lennard Davis asks “Why Is Disability Missing From the Discourse on Diversity?,” a question we would do well to consider as we remain mindful of the various ways the digital divide can affect various people. We Connect Now is a relatively new grassroots organization “dedicated to uniting college students with disabilities in access to higher education and employment issues.” The United States National Council on Disability has produced a substantial report entitled The Power of Digital Inclusion: Technology’s Impact on Employment and Opportunities for People with Disabilities, available for download. Kelli Shaver, of Mashable, tells us about “7 Tech Breakthroughs That Empower People With Disabilities.” From Yahoo! Google Apple How about you? Return to Top
United Nations University L E V E L S Grand challenges in global mental health 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. TASH | Equity, Opportunity and Inclusion for People with Disabilities Ministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Jugend und Kultur | Aktue 25.08.2015 | Schule Das Projekt „Keine(r) ohne Abschluss (KoA)“ hat auch im vergangenen Schuljahr wieder mehr als 100 Schülerinnen und Schülern, die ansonsten ohne die Bescheinigung der Berufsreife die Schule verlassen hätten, neue Perspektiven eröffnet. „Von den insgesamt 133 Schülerinnen und Schülern, die im vergangenen Schuljahr die zehn KoA-Klassen landesweit besucht hatten, schafften 118 den Abschluss der Berufsreife. Das ist eine Erfolgsquote von fast 89 Prozent. 93 dieser jungen Menschen hatten zum Schuljahresende sogar schon einen direkten Anschluss gefunden – in Form einer Ausbildungsstelle, eines weiterführenden Schulbesuchs oder in Form eines Langzeitpraktikums wie beispielsweise eines Freiwilligen Sozialen Jahres“, fasste Bildungsstaatssekretär Hans Beckmann die vorliegenden Ergebnisse des Projektes im Schuljahr 2014/2015 zusammen. Lesen Sie weiter
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