YouTube Will Automatically Caption Your Video
Three years ago YouTube/Google added the ability for video authors to add captions to videos. Over time support for multiple caption tracks was included, the expansion of search to consider text in...
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With HTML5 on the horizon, it is becoming far easier to embed video on a web page than it has been. Sure, you can drop some code copied from YouTube, but you have little control over the HTML or the...
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YouTube Opens Auto-Captioning to All
Image of the captions in use on President Obama’s speech about the Chile earthquake. If you’ve been reading my blog for a while now then you may have noticed my post back in November titled YouTube...
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Current Internet Use, from Assorted Sources
Today Opera Software released data about how users of its Opera Mini mobile web browser use the web. Opera does this periodically to give some insight into how its users may be surfing, but what we...
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You Get What You Pay For
First off, let me apologize for ending the title of this post with a preposition. I am playing off an idiom, so I think I have some leeway. Besides, “You get that for which you pay” just doesn’t roll...
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H.264 Getting Dropped from Chrome
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WebM, H.264 Debate Still Going
On February 2, Microsoft released a plug-in for Chrome on Windows 7 to allow users to play H.264 video directly in Chrome. In addition, Microsoft has said that it will support WebM (VP8) when a user...
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Captions in Everyday Use
Yesterday Henny Swan asked a simple question on the Twitters: I'm curious to know, who uses subtitles on web content (X device) who's not deaf or hard of hearing? For example I did when breastfeeding....
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Changing YouTube Playback Speed
This post originally appeared on the Algonquin Studios blog. YouTube gives users the option to modify the playback speed of some videos. This is particularly useful in the case of videos that you are...
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Tweaked ‘Better Method’ YouTube Embed
Last week Amit Agarwal posted a great tutorial on making YouTube embeds less of a burden for users, A Better Method for Embedding YouTube Videos on your Website. The abstract: Learn how to embed...
View ArticleInaccessible YouTube Embeds
@media print, (min-width: 40em) { figure.two>video { width: 48%; } figure.two>video { flex: 1 1 auto; height: auto; margin: .25em; } } Most of us in the accessibility biz (do we call it that? I think...
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Playback Speed in Default Video Players
One of the most trafficked posts on my site is not about web development at all: Changing YouTube Playback Speed While the ability to control playback speed has real value from an accessibility and...
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