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  • Introducing media accessibility into HTML5

    11 avril 2010, par silvia
    In recent months, people in the W3C HTML5 Accessibility Task Force developed two proposals for introducing caption, subtitle, and more generally time-aligned text support into HTML5 audio and video. These time-aligned text files can either come as external files that are associated with the (...)
  • Google’s challenges of freeing VP8

    10 avril 2010, par silvia
    Since On2 Technology’s stockholders have approved the merger with Google, there are now first requests to Google to open up VP8. I am sure Google is thinking about it. But … what does “it” mean? Freeing VP8 Simply open sourcing it and making it available under a free license doesn’t help. That just (...)
  • W3C Media Annotations API standard

    10 avril 2010, par silvia
    Recently, I was asked to review the W3C Media Annotations specifications as they are about to go into Last Call (a state that comes before the request for implementations at the W3C). The W3C Media Annotations group has defined a set of metadata that they believe is representative and common (...)
  • Happy Ada Lovelace Day to Women in Multimedia R&D

    24 mars 2010, par silvia
    In my field of interest, namely Multimedia, there are not many women active in research and technology development. The more reasons to expose them and point to their great achievements. In my time as a young researcher at the University of Mannheim, I met Prof Wendy Hall of the University of (...)
  • HTML5 Media and Accessibility presentation

    23 février 2010, par silvia
    Today, I was invited to give a talk at my old workplace CSIRO about the HTML5 media elements and accessibility. A lot of the things that have gone into Ogg and that are now being worked on in the W3C in different working groups – including the Media Fragments and HTML5 WGs – were also (...)