html5 video and captions/subtitles

[Justin Obara]

Hi Aaron,

I'm not too up-to-date at the moment on what people are using at the moment for HTML5 video. However, someone else on the list may have some ideas.

Thanks
Justin

On 2010-08-30, at 10:23 AM, Aaron Zeckoski wrote:

> Very cool and good to know. In the meantime, is there a player that
> people are using for html5 (like the jwplayer beta one)?
> 
> -AZ
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Justin Obara <obara.justin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Aaron,
>> We actually got started on an html 5 video player that would also show
>> captions.
>> It's currently in the incubator.
>> http://source.fluidproject.org/svn/incubator/videoPlayer/
>> Unfortunately at the moment it has fallen a little out of date with our main
>> code line. We recently upgraded our jquery, and those changes haven't
>> propagated into the video player code yet.  It shouldn't take much work to
>> get it back up and running though, and I may have time later to look at
>> doing that.
>> We do have plans to move the video player to production status. Although we
>> don't yet have a firm date for when this will occur, I would anticipate
>> you'll start seeing work progress on it in the next few releases or so.
>> Thanks
>> Justin
>> On 2010-08-28, at 12:39 PM, E.J. Zufelt wrote:
>> 
>> 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
>> http://zufelt.ca
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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
>> 
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>> 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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