Accessible Podcasting

Accessible Podcasting Jayme Johnson High Tech Center Training Unit Overview is a podcast?  How do podcasts work?  Enhancing podcasts for access:  iTunes  What video  Resources for creating podcasts  Captioning What is a Podcast? Influence  Digital Content on Website  RSS Feed  User-centered Distribution  Apple’s How Podcasts Work content creation  RSS feed creation  RSS feed subscription  Aggregation (downloading)  Play or view the digital content  Digital RSS Overview Simple Syndication (RSS)  RSS components  Feed  Container  Really & Viewing  Provides power to the user  Aggregating Creating RSS Feeds  Essential  Items Elements – Title, Description, Link  Channel – Title, Description, Link  RSS Specification  XML Specification  Enclosure element  Optional  Last Elements Build Date, Webmaster, Managing Editor, etc… Creating RSS Feeds Jayme creates a podcast with no theme or purpose, and updates it with dead air every week. http://www.htctu.net/ACT/dair.xml The latest installment of nothing http://www.htctu.net/ACT/podcasts/02192007.html Creating RSS Feeds  Free RSS Feed Generators Feed Creator  List Garden RSS Feed Generator  Apple RSS Feed Generator  Hand  RSS  RSS Coding 2.0 Specifications  XML Based Subscribing & Accessing  Aggregators  Online Services (AOL, Yahoo!, Google, etc)  Desktop – email clients, web browsers, iTunes  Software  iPod, Media Players  Portable Media Players MP3 Players, Cell Phones iPod iPod Family  2001 – First iPod Introduced (5,10 Gigs)  2002 – 2nd Gen: Touch Sensitive Wheel, Basic PDA Functionality, Games, (10, 20 Gigs)  2003 – 3rd Gen: Central Row of Touch-Sensitive Buttons, Dock Connector, (10, 15, 20, 30, 40 Gigs) iPod Family (cont)  2004  4th Gen (iPod Photo): Color Display, Click Wheel, (20, 30, 40, 60 Gigs)  iPod Mini Introduced, Five Colors, Introduced Click Wheel, (4 Gigs)  2005  5th Gen (iPod Video): Slimmer Design, Larger Screen, Video Support, Lyrics Support, (30, 60, 80 Gigs) iPod Family (cont)  2005 Mini (2nd Gen): Brighter Color Body, Longer Battery Life, (4, 6 Gigs)  iPod Nano: Successor to iPod Mini, Flash Memory, Color Screen, Lyrics Support, (1, 2, 4 Gigs)  iPod Shuffle: No Screen, No Click Wheel, First to Use Flash Memory, (512 MB, 1 Gig)  iPod iPod Family (cont)  2006 Nano (2nd Gen): Anodized Aluminum Case (6 colors), Brighter Screen, Longer Battery Life, Search Function (2, 4, 8 Gigs)  iPod Shuffle (2nd Gen): Aluminum Case with Built-in Clip, Smaller Form Factor, Multi Colors, (1 Gig)  iPod iPod Family (cont)  2007 “Classic” (6th Gen): Anodized Aluminum front plate, (80, 160 Gigs)  iPod Nano (3rd Gen): Color front plate and chrome back, full color video capability, wider form factor, (4, 8 Gigs)  iPod “Touch”: Same multi-touch interface as iPhone, full color video and wifi access, (8, 16 Gigs)  iPod Enhancing for Access  Formats  Embedding  iTunes  Media information Player  Packaging text and audio/video  Captioning video Format Considerations – MPEG1 Part 3  AAC – Advanced Audio Coding (MPEG2)  MP4 – MPEG4 (23 Parts)  Quicktime MOV  Text  PDF  MP3 Enhancing with iTunes iTunes interface Enhancing with iTunes iTunes Information Dialog Enhancing with iTunes (cont) Artist & Album fields  Organizing tracks in an album  Custom Genres  Remember Position  Using Enhancing with iTunes (cont) Examples of adapted information tags. Enhancing with iTunes (cont) File Information dialog, Options tag. Enhancing with iTunes (cont) File Information dialog, Lyrics tab. Enhancing with Media Player Tag Editor  Synchronized Lyrics  Turning on captions & lyrics playback  Advanced Enhancing with Media Player Advanced Tag Editor Enhancing with Media Player Synchronized Lyrics Captioning Digital Video  Caption  Turn display issue  Available? off and on?  Tools for captioning web based video  MAGpie  Hi Caption (WMP)  Macaw (QT)  Quicktime Pro (MPEG4 export) Captioning Format Issues of screen real estate  1 or 2 lines?  Font size  Background size  Size Alternate Media Podcasts & Video authoring tools  Textbooks  Harvesting DAISY’s  Copyright  Audio Creating Digital Audio Products – Steinberg, Vegas, Cubase, DigiDesign, Cakewalk Sonar, etc.  Free Products – Audacity, Shareware  TTS – MP3 Aloud, Kurzweil, Claro Read, Read & Write Gold 8  Phoneticom  Easy Producer  Commercial Creating Digital Video Premiere, Sony VEGAS, etc  Quicktime Pro, Windows Movie Maker, etc.  Limited-Software Bundled with Cameras  AVID, Accessibility Tools Creation – Automatic Synch, Rapidtext, etc.  Captioning Tools – MagPIE, HiCaption, Macaw, Camtasia, etc.  Media Players – Windows Media Player, iTunes  Caption/Transcript Copyright Issues  Copyright  Viral Still Applies Publishing  Independent Nature  Get Permission  Specialized Format Notification Questions? Thank You! Jayme Johnson, ACT Instructor High Tech Center Training Unit www.htctu.net Email: jjohnson@htctu.net Phone: 408-996-6045