[Using Sakai] captioning support for Lessons builtin player

Shawn Foster sfoster9 at uwo.ca
Wed Oct 22 09:07:57 PDT 2014


Can we have a small, subtle option to add more captioning files if 
needed that would display another set of fields to add another file? 
Therefore, it would be simple and minimalist for basic users with 
additional options for advanced users/use cases.

-Shawn

On 14-10-22 11:06 AM, Charles Hedrick 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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