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’s Podcast Jayme creates a podcast with no theme or purpose, and updates it with dead air every week. http://www.htctu.net/ACT/dair.xml - Dead Air for February 19, 2007 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