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. 😢😢
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In this informative tutorial from the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) you can find a list of tools, techniques, strategies, custom settings and whatnot that people with disabilities may use while browsing the Inter.
Read moreThis informative document from the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) explores the wide diversity of people and abilities, illustrating conditions that people with disabilities may face while using your products and services (websites, mobile or desktop applications, etc.
Read moreofficially known as ANSI/NISO Z39.86-2005 (R2012), revision of ANSI/NISO Z39.86-2002 “Specifications for the Digital Talking Book”, DAISY 3.0 is the third major version of a standard that defines the format and content of the electronic file set that comprises a digital talking book (DTB) and establishes a limited set of requirements for compatible DTB playback devices and applications.
Read moreIn this interactive resources provided by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) you can view Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, principles, success criteria, techniques for satisfying them, and examples of common failures.
Read morePronounced “smile”, Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 3.0) defines an XML-based language that allows authors to write interactive multimedia presentations. Using SMIL 3.0, an author may describe the temporal behavior of a multimedia presentation, associate hyperlinks with media objects and describe the layout of the presentation on a screen.
Read moreIn these tutorials you can learn how to provide (as a content creator) or consume (as a user) captions from within live events and meetings hosted in Microsoft Teams.
Read moreIn this tutorial made available by Youtube itself, you can learn how to improve the accessibility of your videos and live streams on the platform by leveraging its artificial-intelligence (AI) powered speech recognition system to get “automatic” captions for your title.
Read moreIn this tutorial from Youtube’s help center you can learn how to upload, add and edit captions and subtitles for your Youtube videos.
Timed Text Markup Language (TTML) 2 is both a format and a markup language to represent timed text media for the purpose of interchange among authoring systems.
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