Comments on: Google Wave and Accessibility http://ericstoller.com/blog/2009/10/22/google-wave-and-accessibility/ | social justice | higher education | technology | Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:33:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Google adds auto-captioning to YouTube » Eric Stoller’s Blog http://ericstoller.com/blog/2009/10/22/google-wave-and-accessibility/#comment-37425 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:13:10 +0000 http://ericstoller.com/blog/2009/10/22/google-wave-and-accessibility/#comment-37425 [...] Google does not always create accessible products (GoogleWave). However, sometimes they do a good job of increasing the accessibility of an existing service. I hope that Vimeo gets the message that accessibility is important. In the first major step toward making millions of videos on YouTube accessible to deaf and hearing-impaired people, Google unveiled new technologies that will automatically bring text captions to many videos on the site. [Google] combined their automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology with the YouTube caption system to offer automatic captions, or auto-caps for short. Auto-caps use the same voice recognition algorithms in Google Voice to automatically generate captions for video. Tags: accessibility, Accessibility Usability, captioning, google, Higher Education, Social Justice, subtitles, technology, Vimeo, youtube [...] […] Google does not always create accessible products (GoogleWave). However, sometimes they do a good job of increasing the accessibility of an existing service. I hope that Vimeo gets the message that accessibility is important. In the first major step toward making millions of videos on YouTube accessible to deaf and hearing-impaired people, Google unveiled new technologies that will automatically bring text captions to many videos on the site. [Google] combined their automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology with the YouTube caption system to offer automatic captions, or auto-caps for short. Auto-caps use the same voice recognition algorithms in Google Voice to automatically generate captions for video. Tags: accessibility, Accessibility Usability, captioning, google, Higher Education, Social Justice, subtitles, technology, Vimeo, youtube […]

]]> by: Curt Grymala http://ericstoller.com/blog/2009/10/22/google-wave-and-accessibility/#comment-37159 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:21:13 +0000 http://ericstoller.com/blog/2009/10/22/google-wave-and-accessibility/#comment-37159 I don't know why anyone's surprised by this. Last time I checked, Gmail, GoogleDocs forms, Google Voice and Analytics (among others, I'm certain) don't conform to most accessibility standards. Why should Google Wave be any different than the rest of the Google commodities? I think, in the long run, it would be much easier to start a list of the accessibility standards that Google applications do meet and which apps meet those standards rather than to try to point out all of the standards they don't. I don’t know why anyone’s surprised by this. Last time I checked, Gmail, GoogleDocs forms, Google Voice and Analytics (among others, I’m certain) don’t conform to most accessibility standards. Why should Google Wave be any different than the rest of the Google commodities?

I think, in the long run, it would be much easier to start a list of the accessibility standards that Google applications do meet and which apps meet those standards rather than to try to point out all of the standards they don’t.

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