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Since we first announced captions in Google Video and YouTube, we've introduced multiple caption tracks, improved search functionality and even automatic translation. Each of these features has had great personal significance to me, not only because I helped to design them, but also because I'm deaf. Today, I'm in Washington, D.C. to announce what I consider the most important and exciting milestone yet: machine-generated automatic captions.

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Captions make a huge difference to deaf and hard of hearing people who access video on the web. Providing real time translation of dialogue and sound effects into text format also provides a much wider group of people with a more engaging experience.

Google's automatic captioning for YouTube (Auto-Caps)

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Last month, disabled gamer Alexander Stern filed suit against Sony, Sony Online Entertainment, and Sony Computer Entertainment America in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. The suit alleges that Sony is violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by failing to implement features to make its games accessible to visually impaired gamers.

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The report contains:

* Results of usability tests of 19 websites with users with several different types of disabilities who are using a range of assistive technology:
o blind users using screen readers
o blind users using Braille readers
o low-vision users using screen magnifiers
o motor-impaired users
* Test data collected mainly in the United States, with some additional studies in Japan to ensure the international applicability of the recommendations
o A total of 104 users participated in the usability studies:
o 84 users with disabilities
o 20 non-disabled users who served as a control group
* 75 detailed design guidelines

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But then as soon as I read that I thought of Tyler Cowen’s Create Your Own Economy, in which he makes a case that new technologies and practices on the web — precisely the ones Bauerlein has criticized — are empowering autistic and neurodiverse individuals to be more social and productive.

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"If you’re going to build a house—or a website—you need the right tools. A List Apart offers hundreds of articles on design, markup, style, accessibility, usability, and more. We’ve selected a few that you might want to start with. (Think of this guide as one of those reassuring brochures from Lowe’s or Home Depot, but about websites instead of ceramic tile.)"
Covers design theory, standards advocacy, layout/style, page layout/design, server-side code, graphic design/typography. Good introduction to important design issues.

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In association with Microsoft, the Digital Accessible Information SYstem (DAISY) Consortium has announced the second version of the Save as DAISY add-in for Microsoft Office Word, available for download over at openxmlcommunity.org. With the integration of DAISY Pipeline Lite, version 2 of the add-in produces a full DAISY multimedia publication with synchronized text and MP3 audio (instead of converting to just a DAISY XML file).

It is possible to transform Word documents into accessible multimedia formats for people unable to read print. It generates full text and audio books using the Text-to-Speech service on your PC. DAISY XML files can be read natively by some DAISY players, and the DAISY Pipeline is still available for processing those XML files. A more complete description of the DAISY standards and Word-to-DAISY conversion is available on daisy.org.

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The goal of The Alliance for Access to Computing Careers (AccessComputing) is to increase the participation of people with disabilities in computing fields. AccessComputing collaborators apply evidence-based practices to:

* increase the number of stu

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Many web designers, developers, and evaluators are introduced to web access through accessibility tools. All accessibility tools perform automated checks of web pages for accessibility issues and all generally have additional features, but each tool targe

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A native of India, Mr. Raman went from relying on volunteers to read him textbooks at a top technical university there to leading a largely autonomous life in Silicon Valley, where he is a highly respected computer scientist and an engineer at Google.

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Link text contents and appearance guidelines, including link phrases, link length, URLs as links, linking to new pages, etc.

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This book answers two questions. The first question is "Why should I make my web site more accessible?" If you do not have a web site, this book is not for you. The second question is "How can I make my web site more accessible?" If you are not convinced

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A W3C paper on best practices for delivering accessible rich internet applications using WAI-ARIA. It provides recommended approaches to create accessible Web content using WAI-ARIA roles, states, and properties to make widgets, navigation, and behaviors

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Google Maps is a powerful, free tool for adding maps to a site. Unfortunately, out of the box, these maps are reliant on mouse interaction; therefore, they are completely inaccessible to those using only the keyboard for Web interaction. In this article,

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This Mozilla Firefox extension creates a textual representation of a web page similar to how the page would be read by a modern screen reader. The extension and source can be downloaded from the SourceForge project page.

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Web accessibility evaluation tools are software programs or online services that help determine if a Web site meets accessibility guidelines. The W3C maintains a searchable list of accessibility evaluation tools.

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Audio CAPTCHAs consist of a string of spoken characters, typically masked and distorted by a form of background noise. To start with, the researchers looked into the security of existing audio CAPTCHAs used by Google and Digg. In a paper that will be pres

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Basic web accessibility is a known commodity now. Web applications can almost be made accessible; eventually web application accessibility will also be a known commodity, too. Those are clear wins.

But nearly ten years after specifications first required

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Designing accessible content requires designers and developers to pay attention to the user experience. Since many Flash CS4 Professional designers and developers are not familiar with the capabilities of screen readers and other assistive technologies, t

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PAS 78: Guide to good practice in commissioning accessible websites.

Originally, the title was 'Guide to good practice in the design of accessible websites'. After the first Steering Group meeting it was decided to change the focus to 'commissioning' rat

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