StreamText.Net
Vincenzo Rubano·StreamText is a commercial platform for creating and delivering captions over the internet. It is compatible with all speech to text platforms, and supports a wide variety of caption delivery requirements.
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In this section you can find various resources to help you make multimedia content (notably audio and video) more accessible for people with disabilities. Note that this is a topic to pay special attention to, as under certain circumstances (e.g. depending on the kind of content and the user’s disability) this content can end up being totally unusable; unfortunately, this is very common. 😢😢
Resources
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Audio Description Basics for Beginners: A Do's and Don'ts Video Tutorial
Vincenzo Rubano·In this video playlist from the team at Youdescribe, you can watch a series of videos making a video tutorial on the “art” of creating good audio descriptions for videos.
Read moreA step-by-step audio description tutorial (with a troubleshooting section)
Vincenzo Rubano·In this step-by-step- tutorial, you can learn how to create an audio description for a Youtube video using the free Youdescribe web service, a platform that allows anyone to create audio descriptions for videos to let blind and visually impaired people better understand them.
Read moreFrequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for Describers - Youdescribe
Vincenzo Rubano·Collected as a list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), in this guide from Youdescribe you can find a lot of tips and tricks on the “art” of creating good audio descriptions for videos, i.
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Vincenzo Rubano·In this page you can find answers to the most Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about YouDescribe, a free web service that allows any user from the Inter.
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Vincenzo Rubano·Audio descriptions play a critical role in order to ensure that video content is accessible to blind and visually impaired people: generally speaking, audio descriptions contain a “description” of those scenes that couldn’t be understood otherwise (e.
Read moreEvaluating Cognitive Web Accessibility With WAVE
Vincenzo Rubano·In this guide from WebAIM, you can read some very useful guidelines you can leverage to evaluate the accessibility of your content for people with cognitive disabilities or learning difficulties.
Read moreOtter.ai
Vincenzo Rubano·Powered by state-of-the-art artificial intelligence, Otter is a virtual assistant who can help you transcribe in real time in-person, hybrid and virtual meetings. The web service can be integrated in some of the most common conferencing systems (Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet).
Read moreAblePlayer
Vincenzo Rubano·To describe what AblePlayer is, we can simply leverage a slogan you can find on its official repository: AblePlayer is a “fully accessible cross-browser HTML5 media player”.
Read moreAdd Live Text Interaction to Your App (WWDC 2022)
Vincenzo Rubano·In this video from Apple World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2022, you can learn how to bring Live Text support for still photos or paused video frames to your app.
Read moreWorld Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Accessibility Standards Overview
Vincenzo Rubano·This introductory document from the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) can be seen as an “entry point” to make it through the various (a lot of) accessibility-related standards and supporting documents provided by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Read moreStories of Web Users
Vincenzo Rubano·Imagining how people with disabilities use the Web and mobile devices can be hard. Reading all those standards, guidelines, specifications, tutorials and whatnot can be daunting, especially if you cannot make sense of the reason why your web content, mobile or desktop applications must satisfy certain requirements.
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