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

[Matt Clare]

Hi all,

	Great news.
	
	I’d agree that no ones wants an overly complicated interface.  I’d also add that a caption that doesn’t match the original video’s language is an interesting translation feature - not an accessibility support.

	WCAG 2 Level AA requires a caption for synchronized media (video), in my interoperation alternate channels like described video and alternate languages are not required - but would obviously be welcome.  I think that this development should certainly provide for a same language caption (so the uploader would be asked to identify the language and the VTT file - or possibly SRT file), and if additional languages and tracks in a method as Shawn suggested (properly ARIA coded) as a nice-to-have.

	.\.\att

On Oct 22, 2014, at 11:11 , Neal Caidin <neal.caidin at apereo.org> wrote:

> 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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Matt Clare
Manager, eLearning
  Centre for Pedagogical Innovation 
Part-time Instructor
  Interactive Arts and Sciences
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