[Accessibility_sig] Fwd: [MAGPIE]Major CCforFlash update, minor MAGpie update

Moore, Michael Michael.Moore at dars.state.tx.us
Fri Jun 22 10:02:19 CDT 2007


I thought that it might be useful to provide a link to the tools at NCAM

<http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/>

http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/ 


Mike
(512) 424-4159

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when will you have time to fix it?" 

-----Original Message-----
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Kirkpatrick
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 7:37 PM
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Subject: Re: [Accessibility_sig] Fwd: [MAGPIE]Major CCforFlash
update,minor MAGpie update

Judt to be clear, this is not a magic captioning tool - you still need
to get the caption data from magpie or elsewhere...


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Andrew Kirkpatrick

Corporate Accessibility Engineering Lead

Adobe Systems

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 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Sharron Rush [mailto:srush at knowbility.org]
Sent:	Thursday, June 21, 2007 03:18 PM Pacific Standard Time
To:	Discussion list for web and software accessibility issues
Subject:	Re: [Accessibility_sig] Fwd: [MAGPIE]Major CCforFlash
update, minor MAGpie update


Wow, big news indeed...should have fun with that in AIR this year and
especially AIR-Interactive 2008

At 12:18 PM 6/21/2007, you wrote:

>Big news from NCAM: it looks like CCforFlash can now caption swf files,

>as well as mp3 audio files.
>
>Wheee!
>
>Pat
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: Brad Botkin <brad_botkin at wgbh.org>
>Date: Jun 21, 2007 11:57 AM
>Subject: [MAGPIE]Major CCforFlash update, minor MAGpie update
>To: magpie at wgbh.org, ccforflash at wgbh.org
>
>
>All,
>We've just released version 2 of the CCforFlash component an update for

>the related ccPlayer, a new player for audio files called ccMP3Player, 
>and minor update to MAGpie v2.0.3.  For the full story, please visit 
>the website at:
>
>http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/ccforflash
>
>In particular, we've revved the CCforFlash package as described below.
>
>CCforFlash component, v2.0.1   New features include:
>
>- Synchronizes captions to sound objects, video objects, animated movie

>clips, main timeline, and loaded swfs
>- Supports programmatic instantiation of component
>- Exposes full API and object properties
>- Recognizes path names for target objects
>- Recognizes multiple instances of the component in a movie
>- Allows Flash author to override global styles in external caption 
>files
>- Allows square brackets in QTtext files
>- Adds controllable padding between component background and caption 
>text
>- Changes default font style to 14-point Verdana
>
>ccPlayer (Flash video player), v2.0.1   New features include:
>
>- built around the new CCforFlash 2.0.1 (see above)
>- adds full-screen capability
>- allows new object parameters (flashvars) to be passed, such as video 
>autostart, caption autohide, etc.
>- improved accessibility with screen readers
>
>ccMP3Player (Flash MP3 player), v1.0.1   You may want to use this to
>provide captions for podcasts on web pages.  It's relatively barebones,

>with no language or search features at this time.  Features include:
>
>- built around the new CCforFlash 2.0.1 (see above)
>- improved accessibility with screen readers
>
>MAGpie v2.0.3
>The new MAGpie version 2.0.3 is availabe (Windows only currently).  
>This is a minor bug-fix release, repairing a minor bug in DFXP output.

>We're hoping to release the Mac installer soon.
>
>
>We hope you enjoy the new features.
>Cheers,
>-- The NCAM Team
>
>--
>Pat Ramsey
>ramsey.pat at gmail.com
>http://www.patramsey.net
>
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