Accessible HTML5 Video with JavaScripted captions
What? Two blog posts in one day? Not really; this is just a teaser for another article.
The HTML5 video element provides a fantastic way to embed video into web pages without relying on plugins, and it is now supported in Opera, Firefox and Chrome, so things are looking up. One burning question however is “how do we provide alternative content for users that either can’t see, or can’t hear the video?
In this article on the Opera Developer Network, I demo a proof-of-concept solution.
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