html5 video and captions/subtitles

[Aaron Zeckoski]

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 Unfortunately at the moment it has fallen a little out of date with our main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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