Disabled in the Digital Age

YouTube adds new captioning feature
Disabled in the Digital Age Great post from Bill Creswell about YouTube's new feature to add annotations, the equivalent of speech bubbles, to your videos. Take a look at the comments for instuctions from Bill on how to add them yourself.
Tech Wed, Jun 04 2008 hide this blog

Advocates for Deaf & Hard of Hearing to Meet in Milwaukee
Disabled in the Digital Age Experts Available to Discuss New Technologies, Newborn Screenings, Communication Options WHO: The Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (AG Bell) is the only national organization dedicated to supporting children and adults who are deaf or hard of hearing who use spoken language and hearing technology to communicate in mainstream society. ...
Media Education Culture Wed, Jun 04 2008 hide this blog

This just in: Hulu.com
Disabled in the Digital Age I received a comment from a software engineer at Hulu.com. Check out the previous hulu post if you want to see the original comment, but here it is if you don't want to do more clicking: Hi, I’m a software engineer at Hulu working on advertising technologies. I noticed your post and wanted to let you [...]
Tech Mon, Jun 02 2008 hide this blog

Video Player Review: Hulu.com
Disabled in the Digital Age Eh, I've heard rave reviews about how great Hulu is for watching video online, but as far as Web accessibility goes, it's pretty hit or miss. At first I thought captions weren't available when I tried to watch an episode of The Office and captions were no where to be found. But I browsed around a [...]
Tech Sat, May 31 2008 hide this blog

Video Player Review: NBC.com
Disabled in the Digital Age We've got another one! NBC.com does offer captions with its full episodes, but they definitely have a few kinks to work out. The captions are pretty easy to find; you have to click on “extra features” and then the CC button. However, the captions scroll vertically to the right of the video window, making it hard [...]
Tech Sat, May 31 2008 hide this blog

Video Player Review: Fox.com
Disabled in the Digital Age And we have a winner! Fox, while it doesn't have as wide of a content selection as some of the other networks, gets it right when it comes to its video player. I'm not sure how the roll over menus would work with a screen reader, but it's easy to find the show you want to watch [...]
Tech Sat, May 31 2008 hide this blog

Video Player Review: CBS.com
Disabled in the Digital Age CBS.com video player Another disappointment ... I think the CBS navigation would be easier to use with adaptive mobility devices or screen readers, which garners this site one more star. However, no captions anywhere to be found. And they don't even have easy to find instructions or FAQs to direct you to captions. These are very informal [...]
Tech Sat, May 31 2008 hide this blog

Video Player Review: ABC.com
Disabled in the Digital Age abc.com full episode player I’ve always been a big fan of abc.com. It has some of my favorite shows online so I don’t have to stress out if I miss the broadcast airing, the content is posted quickly, and the video quality is always high. However, I’ve discovered that abc.com seems to be practically unusable as far [...]
Tech Sat, May 31 2008 hide this blog

ASL Dictionary
Disabled in the Digital Age An article from CNN about a video tool in development, which would serve as an ASL dictionary. The theory is: you come across a sign that you don't know, you sign it for the camera, and using motion detection, it will tell you what the sign means. “I know from my own experience that it's really [...]
Language Tech Tue, May 27 2008 hide this blog

How to add captions to a video using iMovie
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“ASL is a three-dimensional language”
Disabled in the Digital Age This is an interview with Bracken Gott. He is a Ph.D student at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology in Chicago. He learned American Sign Language, or ASL, when he was an undergrad at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Language Culture Tue, May 13 2008 hide this blog

Read my hands
Disabled in the Digital Age Remember a couple of years ago when some MIT students invented an alarm clock that rolled away from you and you had to get out of bed to turn it off? Neat idea, but I would have destroyed it within... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Tech Tue, May 13 2008 hide this blog