1. Sarah Alder Silver

    Managing Director at Cranmore Digital Consulting Ltd

    09 November 2008 23:41pm

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    Does anyone have any good examples of where video on websites is being supplied with sub titles, to make it more accessible? and what is the legal situation for this, here and in the US? thanks. Sarah

  2. Richard Grinter Silver

    Project Manager at Help The Aged

    09 January 2009 10:25am

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    Hi Sarah, accessibility and video on the web is a legal nightmare

    I have launched a couple of public sector facing video portals.

    The DDA expects people to take "reasonable steps" but single A demands

    1.4 For any time-based multimedia presentation (e.g., a movie or animation), synchronize equivalent alternatives (e.g., captions or auditory descriptions of the visual track) with the presentation.

    so you need some form of closed captioning - however when the video window is very small (as is on most video on the web) the subtitles are unreadable

    I have yet to see a website handle accessible video well.

    I do know there are tools out there that you can input the content of the video and it'll build the captions for you, but this is fairly resource heavy if you have anything more than a short video file.

    Most websites I've seen that in any way try and be accessible offer a transcript, however it would be very hard for somebody to watch the video and read the transcript at the same time.

    sorry i could not be more help
    Richard

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