DMAC captioning

Notes from DMACINSTITUTE Monday, May 19, 2014

Harley:
Referred to mike wesch the machine is us/ing us

The icons on the computer are all from older technologies. People have since tried to think of new icons that are less literal.

Websites have a noted design. The interface tells people how to use it because we have become accustomed to it. Referred to Scott McCloud's book and how it teaches us how the lead the reader's eye. We might have really cool ideas and metaphors that we want to translate to a website, but then it would be impossible to code, the reader wouldn't know how to read it, and it would not work with certain platforms since they are so set in how they are created.

Think about how you will get the reader to go where you want them to go. The user always needs to know where the next step is. Think in terms of groupings. Need to think categorically so we can have better control of the main screen's real estate.

To make the website accessible to everyone, we need to think about metadata and tagging.


Brenda Jo Brueggemann. (Guest speaker)

Access should be woven into the fabric of the project. The captioning helps deaf and hard of hearing
people and multilingual viewers. It can also translate if the transcript has been provided. The transcript also helps as a means for search index.

Showed "why I mind" on YouTube with her own captions and then with the youutube supplied captions. Rhett and link's caption fail lady gaga putt putt was a hilarious example of what happens