In the last video we saw how to use Hyperaudio’s WordPress plugin to create an Interactive Transcript. This is an Interactive Transcript here. What does it do? Well you can click on the words to navigate.
“…infrastructure where anybody could participate without asking permission …we attribute”
And you see the words highlighted as stuff is played. We can also share bits. But the great thing is because we’ve got these word timings in the background, we can also create closed captions automatically. So if I turn those on.
“…tightly restricting how that culture gets used the internet enabled, an infrastructure where anybody could participate without asking permission. We have all these new technologies that allow people to…”
So as a WordPress developer, what can you do here? What can you change? Well, if you go to the settings you can see under the captions part there are a few parameters that you can pass through to the short code. So we have… we can turn them off, if you don’t want the captions, but you can also set a maximum and minimum char size or char length for the captions, the language and track label. So just to see that quickly working… here we are in the short code and that’s all the transcript data there, which I’ve showed you how to do in previous videos. So if I set max width to something fairly small like 10 and… just check I got that right caption caption max I believe it is. And then caption min to… let’s just do four and see what happens. And then if we preview this and take a look at it.
“…tightly restricting how that culture gets used, the Internet enabled an infrastructure.”
You can see that we’ve got very, very, very restrictive captions there, but that was just a quick demo of one of the advantages of using the Hyperaudio WordPress plugin and its implications for accessibility. Thanks.
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