Joe Clark, accessibility advocate extraordinaire, posted “[Will Moz blow it on captioning?](http://blog.fawny.org/2009/07/27/mozcc1/)” I don’t know what’s the right answer. But so many organizations do it differently, it’d be near impossible to have a standard for everyone that’s easy to use.
Category: Links
Closed-Captioned Movie Trailers
After seeing *Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince*, it got me thinking there has to be a place online to view many subtitled trailers in one place. Within a few minutes, I found [http://www.yourlocalcinema.com/](http://www.yourlocalcinema.com/). [CaptionFish](http://captionfish.com) has subtitled trailers for the current releases, but I wanted to find them all in one place without trying to …
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Trailer
Here’s the link to view the closed-captioned trailer of the sixth Harry Potter movie. [http://www.captionfish.com/movie/harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince](http://www.captionfish.com/movie/harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince) Wonder when a captioned version of the movie will reach the Dallas area. Definitely not next week.
Fishing for Movies with Captionfish
You may have seen [Fomdi](http://www.fomdi.com/), a web site that helps you locate captioned movies (either open caption or rear window) by zip code and how far the theaters are from your home. Fomdi has a Google search-like interface. It provides a great service, but it doesn’t catch every movie. Today, it shows only one captioned …
Designing for Accessibility Links
[Laura Carlson](http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/webdevlist) provides loads of links to great articles on accessibility in web design. Want to share them with you. [Create Your Own Accessibility Statement](http://www.nomensa.com/web-accessibility/create-your-own-accessibility-statement.html): “An accessibility statement has two basic functions. Firstly, it presents clear information about the target level of web accessibility for the website and the methods used to achieve those targets.Secondly, …
Can You Hear This?
NoiseAddicts has a great hearing test to see what you can and can’t hear. It provides sounds from 8kHz up to 22 kHz. Don’t fret if you can’t hear anything beyond 15 kHz. It just means you’re most likely to be over the age of 25 and that’s normal. I can’t even hear the 8kHz …
Convert Voice Mail to Text Report #3
As a BrightHub writer, I learned about another voice mail to text service except this one has an added feature the others don’t have: Address book. It integrates your cell phone’s address book with the service’s web-based application. The web-based application lets you see the missed calls, voice mail to text messages, and your address …
Review of Video Captioning Apps
Bill Cresswell lists ProudGeek reviews of some captioning methods. Bill also adds other captioning options that aren’t reviewed. If you know of any services or options not included, please leave a comment to add it to the list. Thank you, Bill!
Captioning, Transcripts and Teachable Moment
Love this story about working with NASA: I was approached by a web developer who was working on a project for NASA: an out-reach program geared towards students at all levels (K-4 through “higher ed”) that essentially encouraged students to use NASA Videos and create “remixes”. Since NASA is clearly a Section 508 respondent, the …
Whoo Hoo for Hulu
I had heard about Hulu, yet another video watching service. Originally, I ignored it as I ignore most video service news. I happened to catch the Alec Baldwin Hulu commercial and he intrigued me enough to check it out. Not that I want my brain to turn to mush. There, I got the shock of …