Web Directions

Silvia Pfeiffer — Taking HTML5 <video> a step further

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• By:Guy Leech
• October 9, 2009
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Web Directions South 2009, Sydney Convention Centre, October 8 2.40pm.

• Video record­ing of ses­sion
• Presentation slides
• Session descrip­tion
• About Silvia Pfeiffer

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Presentation slides

Session descrip­tion

This talk focuses on the efforts engaged by W3C to improve the new HTML 5 media ele­ments with mech­a­nisms to allow peo­ple to access mul­ti­me­dia con­tent, includ­ing audio and video. Such devel­op­ments are also use­ful beyond acces­si­bil­ity needs and will lead to a gen­eral improve­ment of the usabil­ity of media, mak­ing media dis­cov­er­able and gen­er­ally a prime cit­i­zen on the Web.

Silvia will dis­cuss what is cur­rently tech­ni­cally pos­si­ble with the HTML5 media ele­ments, and what is still miss­ing. She will describe a gen­eral frame­work of acces­si­bil­ity for HTML5 media ele­ments and present her work for the Mozilla Corporation that includes cap­tions, sub­ti­tles, tex­tual audio anno­ta­tions, timed meta­data, and other time-​​aligned text with the HTML5 media ele­ments. Silvia will also dis­cuss work of the W3C Media Fragments group to fur­ther enhance video usabil­ity and acces­si­bil­ity by mak­ing it pos­si­ble to directly address tem­po­ral off­sets in video, as well as spa­tial areas and tracks.

About Silvia Pfeiffer

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