An introduction to the MALT Wiki/multimedia accessibility pilot project, and it's use of the oEmbed specification. Presented at a technology coffee morning, Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, in December 2009. (Co-presented with Wendy Porch.)
Logos: YouTube, iTunes U, Open University, Vimeo, Viddler, Tube Caption, Sign Tube, dot SUB, Caption First ... Wendy
95% transcripts for OU podcasts sounds good, however we're currently bad at providing links to those transcripts, outside iTunes. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, http://w3.org/TR/wcag20 Nick
Wendy
http://www.eu4all-project.eu Wendy
Link to an example on a password protected site (Forth road bridge, OpenLearn). Wendy
Steven Price, a developer in Student Services, is: Using the NCAM ccPlayer to provide video and captions on some public DSS pages, and Is experimenting with the new <video> element in HTML5 + Javascript captions. MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) are developing a system that will automatically transcribe lecture videos. They will showcase lectures that are part of MIT's OpenCourseWare initiative, http://ocw.mit.edu/ and, Provide a service where users can upload audio files for automatic transcription. Project Possibility – at a US university, student driven…?
Evaluation of 5 Flash players against 6-7 criteria YouTube: captions may be embeddable. Captions are portable. Only owner can transcribe/upload. Easy YouTube: HTML/ Javascript controls - v. easy! http://icant.co.uk/easy-youtube/ JwPlayer: The only player to allow Audio Description via external file (MP3). * wmode= 'window' NCAM/ccFlash player: The most thoughtful pure Flash interface - separate play/pause, up/down volume. NCAM/ccFlash: &quot;Advanced&quot; captions - can be styled, colour, position. “ Aaron” player: OpenLaszlo-based – free software, potential. accessibility patch submitted. http://aaronwinborn.com . “ Aaron” player: OpenLaszlo/ Drupal – lots of potential! Flow player: 'Advanced' captions, scriptable, themable, free software. An audio SWF plugin is available - needs JS integration. http://flowplayer.org
A screen shot of the caption editor on the dotSUB multi-lingual captioning/subtitling web site, http://dotsub.com Nick
Logos at the bottom Wikipedia Foundation, OpenStreetMap, Project Gutenberg, GNU Free Software Foundation. Nick
A diagram representing the use of a browser plug-in or extension on a site like YouTube. Nick
A diagram representing the use of a module/filter for Web software such as Wordpress (blog), Drupal (content management), Moodle (online learning). Nick
A flow-chart, sort of. At the top the content author creates a embeds a link using whatever syntax, for example, <a rel=&quot;embed&quot; href=&quot;http://youtube.com/watch...&quot;>..</a> The system (Moodle, Wordpress …) filter's this and calls the appropriate oEmbed service, either directly or, Via a Javascript library (jquery.oembed.js) The oEmbed provider (MALT Wiki, YouTube, Slideshare, Flickr…) returns the embed code. The embed code replaces the original link. Bingo. oEmbed specification, http://oembed.com oohEmbed proxy site, http://oohembed.com --
A screen shot of the new MALT player showing captions and coloured buttons at the bottom. Inspired by Chris Heilmann's Easy YouTube player, http://icant.co.uk/easy-youtube Nick
Meta-data/personalization example, http://maltwiki.org/frame/?demo=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fyoutube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DVesKht_8HCo 4 languages: English, French, Spanish (Latin American), Simplified Chinese (Hans, Mainland China). For example, http://maltwiki.org/frame/?lang=es&url=http%3A%2F%2Fyoutube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DVesKht_8HCo User Javascript for Greasemonkey/Firefox. Integration: see the MALT Wiki player/oEmbed in operation at http://cloudworks.ac.uk (search 'embed') Wordpress – yes, really 1 line!
A slide for the techies, a simple example page is http://olnet.org/ci/demo - this includes an experimental Cohere-oEmbed service.
I've tested this, and can demonstrate with NVDA screen reader, and MSAA Inspect32... http://freear.org.uk/node/22 Nick
The current alpha site is at, http://maltwiki.org (Soft-launch 19 October 2009. Was a demonstration at, iet-access.open.ac.uk/malt) http://twitter.com/nfreear
Screen shot of a page from YouTube. showing a modified player with a transcript in a scrollable block inserted by the user Javascript (Greasemonkey script) below the player. Nick
+ Transcription/ translation can be collaborative - Wiki-like + Captions are portable (W3C TT XML, Subrip SRT) + Ajax-based editor or import captions + Powerful search, including in RSS + Rich meta-data, including caption attribution + Creative Commons licenses are encouraged + Business model - captions created for free/ fee * Nick - Uploader must be owner/ permission of owner of video ** - Connections not explicit - Captions don't indicate person - TT styling - retrofit? - Meta-data not exposed in RSS search or TT - YET - No comments, rating, user profile - not &quot;social&quot; YET ? Accessibility of site, player, editor
Blog post about personalization demo, 12 October 2009, http://freear.org.uk/node/25
Tags: co-create, subtitle, data portability, crowd source, alternative format, accessibility, annotate, usability, audio description, social production, podcast, multimedia, iTunesU, mentor, community, develop, YouTube, caption, open content, transcribe, Video, Wiki, plug-in, participate, free software, in-situ, web service, social-karma.