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Thursday, February 02, 2006

Subtitles Online

Accessibility has become an important issue for websites especially in the UK. Businesses are now trying to fullfil some of the needs expressed in the Disability Discrimination Act. Some clever people involved with Click Online (shown BBC News 24 and BBC World) piloted a subtitling feature. This enabled deaf and hearing-impaired viewers to benefit from the facility to watch the programme on the website. As well as helping the BBC's sensory-impaired audience it is hoped it will be of use to people learning English as a second language.

You can have a look at the programmes at the link provided. While I couldn't get the service to work in Firefox (could be my system) it worked well in IE and I was most impressed by the subtitling feature. Subtitling for video and web streams could be The Next Big Thing.

1 Comments:

Pete said...: While I can't watch it (don't have Windows media player or Real Player on my mac), I suspect they're just using the SMIL spec to do these closed captions. Which first came out in 98!; 9:29 PM

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