Accessible Rhetoric

Captions on the side (literally)
Accessible Rhetoric I'd be interested in seeing the results of usability tests (if any) for NBC.com's video player, which has built-in support for closed captioning on full episodes. When activated by the user, the captions are displayed on the right side of the video player, off the display canvas itself, and scroll either up or down. The user [...]
Media Tech Thu, Jul 10 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Accessible podcasting — A preview
Accessible Rhetoric I just finished an article-length webtext on accessible podcasting. The webtext 1) is a critique of the dominant approach to podcasting, an approach that assumes (mistakenly) that every producer and subscriber can hear, see, and move well enough to manipulate a mouse, and 2) describes a set of solutions for making podcasts (both audio and [...]
Higher Education Language Tech Fri, Jul 04 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Support for video annotations on YouTube
Accessible Rhetoric YouTube recently added support for video annotations and in-video links. Three types of annotations are supported: speech bubbles, notes, and spotlights. As Bill Creswell rightly pointed out a couple days ago, YouTube's implementation is similar to what users can do with “bubbles” on BubblePly.com. One key difference is that YouTube's annotatio...
Tech Wed, Jun 25 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Aggregating feeds to search for captioned web videos
Accessible Rhetoric On the subject of captioned programming on the Web, Closed Captioning Web suggests in a recent blog post that More major network channels are setting up video players on their sites..and the good news is, the players show captions! More and more captioned programming is now available through Fox.com (read the review at Disabled in the Digital Age) [...]
Tech Wed, Jun 25 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Deaf American Gladiator
Accessible Rhetoric While browsing Hulu.com the other day, I caught a glimpse (on the site's scrolling image bar) of what looked like a cochlear implant attached to the head of a contestant on American Gladiators. Because I have an ongoing interest in how deafness and cochlear implants are visually and discursively constructed in the media, I located [...]
Tech Wed, Jun 25 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post