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Cheers to those who attended my Core Conversation on captioning web video. Some quick links related to the topic:

MAGpie (Media Access Generator). This is the software I spoke of that makes it pretty easy to create caption files you can use with online video.
The MAGpie mailing list. A mailing list is only as useful as [...]

I’m happy and honored to say I’ll be presenting at South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive this year. I’m leading one of the Core Conversation sessions and the topic is captioning web video. The conversation title is “Cooking up Accessible Video for the Web” and it’s going to be on Sunday, March 9, at 3:30.
The [...]

In earlier articles, we looked at installing MAGpie, how to use the software and how to create our caption files. How do we get these into a web page?
Embed tag. vs the Object tag
The Embed tag is deprecated. If you have pages with a DOCTYPE of XHTML 1 Strict, the embed tag will break your [...]

We’ve installed MAGpie2, we’ve created a new project, now let’s create our captions.
If you’ve created a new project and selected your base video, you should see the video file in one window and the main MAGpie interface in another.

In the main interface, you will see a multimedia start-stop playback interface. This is where you start, [...]

In my first MAGpie 2 article, I talked about installing the software on either a Windows XP or Macintosh computer. If you don’t have MAGpie2 installed and would like to caption a video, please refer to that piece if you can’t get the software loaded. In addition, the third MAGpie2 documentation article is here and [...]

This post will be the first in a series that replaces my existing MAGpie 2 documentation. I’m talking about MAGpie, the Media Access Generator from the National Center for Accessible Media, not the RSS parser. Right now that documentation is outside my Wordpress domain. I’m working to bring it in with the rest of my [...]