Technology Tools for Teaching and Learning
Making Multimedia Accessible to Students with DisabilitiesNational Center for Accessible Media (http://ncam.wgbh.org/)
Dedicated to achieving media access quaility for people with disabilities
Captioning Quicktime (http://www.webaim.org/howto/captions/quicktime/quicktime)
Detailed article that gives step-by-step instructions to add captioning to Quicktime movies and provides an overview on the state of synchronized multimedia.
Rich Media Accessibility (http://ncam.wgbh.org/richmedia/showcase.html)
Rich media refers to elements on a web page (or in a separate player) which exhibit dynamic motion over time or in response to user interaction. This site has examples of accessible rich media, information about available tools, resource links and discussion about multimedia access issues and solutions. Media Access Generator (MAGpie) creates caption and audio for video and is downloadable from this site. (http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/)
SMIL: Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/)
Designed by the W3C, Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language enables simple authoring of interactive audiovisual presentations. The SMIL language is an easy-to-learn HTML-like language.
Streaming Media World (http://www.streamingmediaworld.com/)
Offers lots of information on SMIL and other non-SMIL synchronizing languages. Tutorials available.
Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange (SAMI) (http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnacc/html/atg_samiarticle.asp)
Microsoft® Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange (SAMI) simplifies captioning for developers, educators, and multimedia producers and designers. The SAMI file format specification is available to the public as an "open" (no licensing fees) standard.
Flash Accessibility (http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/productinfo/accessibility/)
Provides example code and guidelines to make Macromedia Flash (SWF) movies accessible to users with disabilities.
Adobe Acrobat Accessibility (http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_booklet.html)
Information on how to make PDF accessible.
Multimedia Captioning: PDF and Flash (http://cita.rehab.uiuc.edu/courses/2002-02-REHAB711NC/lec15/index.html)
PowerPoint presentation by Jon Gunderson of the University of Illinois. A brief outline of the issues defining PDF and Flash accessibility.