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Requirements
You must have Windows media player 6.4 or greater in order to view captioning.  If you do not have Windows Media Player, you may download it from the Windows Media site.

Preparing this video for the Web
This video was edited, formatted and resized using Microsoft Movie Maker.  Captioning added using Hi-Caption generated SAMI files.

How to view captioning with Windows Media Player
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Next, you need to configure Windows Media Player to show the captioning.

For Windows Media Player 7.0/7.1/8.0:

  1. Click on the Show Equalizer Settings button.  See item 1 in picture below.
  2. Cycle through the equalizer settings until the captioning text appears.  See item 2 in picture below.
  3. Captioning will appear in the block below the video.   See item 3 in picture below.

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The transcript of this video as text

The Cynthia Says portal is a joint Education and Outreach project of ICDRI, The Internet Society Disability and Special Needs Chapter and HiSoftware.

The accessibility and content quality checkpoints tested will appear in the report along with detailed reporting for those checkpoints.

Some checkpoints have been tested programmatically and the results of the test are shown as pass or fail. The individual components that comprise each check are listed

For some checks, the report will give the result of NA, or (Not Applicable). This means that there were no elements on the test page that required testing for that check.

There are some checkpoints that require a manual test by the user. If there is no value listed in the report, then that is a checkpoint that requires the manual check.

If you selected to run the alt text quality reports, those reports will appear below the accessibility reports.

The Alt Text Quality Report reports image alt text which contains alt text values such as the word "image" either as an individual word, or part of another word.

This is flagged as it might not completely describe the image it represents.

The Alt Text Quality Report reports image alt text that may have a image file extension in the alt tag such as .jpg or .gif. This can alert you to cases where the author or authoring tool may have added the image name as the value for alt text.

The Alt Text Quality Report reports where the image alt text may be less than 8 characters or greater than 80 characters in length. If the text is too short or too long, it is not as helpful.

The Alt Text Quality Report reports when you might be repeating words in your alt tag more than six times per image. Sometimes, authors may add keywords to their image alt tags in an attempt to trick the search engines into providing a higher rating for the page.

If you had checked to "include file source on accessibility failures", the source code of the page tested will appear in the report at the bottom.

The line numbers used in the accessibility and alt text quality reports will appear on the left side.



 


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