Accessibility support for media modules.

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Posted by coderintherye on April 19, 2010 at 6:30pm

At today's BOF on accessibility, we were discussing a need for caption support for various media modules. I filed an issue here: http://drupal.org/node/775632 for media module, but it would be great to have a discussion on where we should focus on adding caption support, especially getting some use cases up would be great.

Updated the subject line to focus this discussion around accessibility with media modules in general.

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Defining the problem

Posted by Everett Zufelt on April 19, 2010 at 10:58pm
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Being in the BOF I know that this discussion starting post was a on-the-fly stub. But, lets start to build a discussion around the types of features that we require to ensure that an accessible rich media experience is available to all users. Along with captioning we likely want to discuss ASL translation and described video.

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We added links in the issue

Posted by Hanno on May 24, 2011 at 9:29pm
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We added links in the issue to the modules http://drupal.org/project/media_universalsubtitles & http://drupal.org/project/media_captions
Last one is meant as an API. Hope we will get caption support in the media module!

We added links in the issue

Posted by Hanno on May 24, 2011 at 9:30pm
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We added links in the issue to the modules http://drupal.org/project/media_universalsubtitles & http://drupal.org/project/media_captions
Last one is meant as an API. Hope we will get caption support in the media module!

requirements

Posted by Hanno on July 1, 2011 at 3:24pm
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Had a discussion with Clemens Tolboom from the universal subtitles module. It would be great to find a standard solution for:
* a standard field for captions
- convertable to all caption file formats for different players and as transcription (html without time codes)
- importable from Universal subtitles, file, YouTube captions or from e.g. quicktime package
- searchable
- translatable
- possibly special input format/editor
* a standard field for the audo descriptions (mp3)
- file upload
- multilangual

Starting with Alt Text

Posted by mgifford on July 13, 2012 at 4:35am
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There hasn't been much movement on this, but the basics are http://drupal.org/node/1307054

And they need a lot of work too!

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