The Accessible Video Interface
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
The age of video on the Web is here! Both content creators and users have high expectations and you may become caught in the middle. Learn how to create an accessible media interface that will allow your institution to deliver high quality Flash video with closed captioning, convey a consistent design across your Web presence, and remain easy to maintain even after your “small” project is unexpectedly scaled to include hundreds of videos.
Downloads to get you started:
- Download:
- Version 1.0 (basic, a good place to start)
- Version 1.1 (recently used in production)
- Version 1.2 (adds full screen, link to transcript)
- Examples:
- View the basic and production versions
- dfxp.xml caption file
- smil.xml file
Other Resources:
- Creating Captions
- ActionScript3 Documentation:
- Community MX
- Flash Video: Why the Other Players Don’t Get It By Robert Reinhardt
- The Working with SMIL Series by Robert Reinhardt (You will need to be a member)
- GoToAndPlay.Net
- Learn about the trouble we had with our streaming provider (and how it was fixed)
- SWFObject
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