html5 video and captions/subtitles

[E.J. Zufelt]

Hi,

I was actually just listening to John's presentation from a11ymtl http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/9179790

In short, the video / audio elements currently don't support captioning / transcripts, this is going to change in the future.

HTH,
Everett Zufelt
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On 2010-08-28, at 11:40 AM, Aaron Zeckoski wrote:

> Thanks for the pointer. Do I have to ask him on twitter or is there a
> way to use email (I know it is quaint but it does work sometimes...)?
> :-)
> -AZ
> 
> 
> On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:35 AM, E.J. Zufelt <everett at zufelt.ca> wrote:
>> Good morning Aaron,
>> You should ask John Foliot this question (twitter @johnfoliot)  John is a
>> great guy and a co-chair of the media sub group of the joint HTML WG / WAI
>> taskforce on html5 accessibility.
>> HTH,
>> Everett Zufelt
>> http://zufelt.ca
>> Follow me on Twitter
>> http://twitter.com/ezufelt
>> 
>> View my LinkedIn Profile
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt
>> 
>> 
>> On 2010-08-28, at 9:37 AM, Aaron Zeckoski wrote:
>> 
>> Has anyone run across an accessible way to show captions and subtitles
>> (timetext files) with html5 video? I have been using the jwplayer for
>> flash to do this but we would like to switch over to html5 video. From
>> lots of googleing it seems there is something on the way (a track
>> tag?) but it may be a long time before it actually is supported.
>> 
>> Does anyone have any insight into this?
>> -AZ
>> 
>> 
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