[WG: Accessibility] [Using Sakai] captioning support for Lessons builtin player

[Neal Caidin]

Hi,

I'm looping in the Accessibility group on this question. Please see below.

Cheers,
Neal


On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Charles Hedrick <hedrick at rutgers.edu>
wrote:

> Currently if you upload a video file to Lessons, it will normally use the
> HTML5 video tag. At least this is true for current browsers and MP4. If the
> browser reports that it can’t play the video with HTML5, we’ll try to find
> some way to play it.
>
> We’re concerned about the accessibility of Sakai. I’m about to add support
> for captioning files for Lessons. HTML5 allows you to specify multiple
> files to go along with a video. The file types include caption, subtitle,
> descriptions, chapter, and metadata. Each one can be in multiple languages.
> A default can be (for some browsers, must be) defined. I’m concerned about
> presenting the user with all of these options if in fact (as I suspect) we
> are going to do well to supply a captioning file in one language.
> Unnecessary complexity leads to user confusion.
>
> Would folks be OK if Lessons simply allows a single caption file to be
> associated with a video?
>
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