Captioned News on the Web - Clarification
Wednesday December 27, 2006
Some people have indicated to me that they did not understand, or were unable to, see the captions on the CNN news clips. Here is a step-by-step explanation of how to see the captions:
- Put your mouse over the video clips in the Flash clip montage (be sure you have Flash installed on your computer). You will see a large arrow.
- Read the description of the clip that appears at the bottom below the clip montage. Decide if you want to see that clip.
- Click or double-click on the arrow.
- A new window will open,titled "CNN Daily News Clips."
- A commercial will play, but may not have captions.
- After the commercial, the news clip will play. If you do not see captions then:
- Make sure your Windows Media Player is configured to show closed captions. To configure Windows Media Player, open it on your computer and click on "Play" in the top file menu. There is a sub-menu item, "Captions and Subtitles." Make sure "On if available" is selected.
- Below the CNN video clip you should see a row of button controls (Previous, Stop, and Play). At the far right, there should be a button labeled "cc." Click that button if the captions do not appear.
- Enjoy. It isn't much, but it is a start.
The code:
<embed src="http://developer.searchvideo.com/apps/listWidget/listWidget.swf?
query=channel%3A%22AOL%20News%22%20distributor%3A%22CNN%22%20&resultsnum=20"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="390" height="100"></embed>
The result:
(Just mouse over for a description and click on the arrow to view)
Comments
More and more, people turn to the Web for news that the main stream media fails to give. And far more often than not, that News IS NOT CAPTIONED!!!
Deaf/HoH people need to DEMAND this of every media source! There’s no reason it shouldn’t be, given the technology!
Basically, you need Flash. Go to Macromedia’s site and install it if it’s not already installed. Version 8 is the latest.
With Firefox, some of you may not have the right plug-ins. Make sure that Firefox is not blocking them from installing when it shows the little bar on top of your window. If it does, click the X on the right of the bar, go into Tools, Options, Security, and uncheck “Warn me when sites try to install add-ons.” Then try again.
For those of you who have IE, most likely you have all you need installed unless it’s missing something.
For other browsers, follow its prompts if it brings them up.
This does not run properly on Opera, unless I’m missing something myself.
Follow my instructions and Jamie’s instructions as well, and you should have everything working and a video showing. Again, if you see video after the commercials show, and the captions do not display, click on the CC and they will appear.
It matters not what Internet provider you have unless you have one of those funky weird ISPs that seem to use clients that take over your computer.
It should also be noted that the captions are only viewable on Windows; Mac users are left in the cold. (This despite the fact that QuickTime, which is used for AOL’s video clips on Macs, has supported closed captioning for quite a while now…)