[Athen] UPDATE: iTunes U teleconference Agenda

Greg Kraus greg at lecshare.com
Tue Jul 17 21:16:35 PDT 2007


Hi Dawn,

I'm not sure if anyone has responded to you yet. There are two main
problems with iTunes and accessibility - the application and the
media. The iTunes application on Windows is fairly inaccessible,
especially for screen reader users. The Mac version is getting more
accessible with Apple's VoiceOver.

The media is also inaccessible for many types of disabilities because
neither the audio nor video files are captioned within iTunes. You
can upload a QuickTime movie with a caption track to iTunes and it
will play back just fine within iTunes and QuickTime, but it won't
transfer to an iPod.

Hope this helps.

Greg


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On Jul 13, 2007, at 1:42 PM, Dawn Hunziker wrote:


> Hi All,

>

> I just found out that the University of Arizona is planning to

> participate in iTunes U. I searched through my ATHEN email

> archives for more information so I have a little more understanding

> on what's going on but.....

>

> Since I'm not an expert iTunes user... are the accessibility issues

> in both the creation of the podcasts as well as the interface to

> search and download the information?

>

> I'm meeting with the campus podcasting "guru" on Wednesday 7/18 so

> any suggestions / input would be much appreciated!

>

> Thanks all, in advance and have a good weekend!

>

> Dawn

>

> At 08:07 AM 7/11/2007, you wrote:

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>>

>> Attendees:

>>

>> Joe Humbert – Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

>> Mary Stores – Indiana University

>> Janna Willnauer – Jackson County Community College

>> Jayme Johnson – High Tech Center California Community Colleges

>> Lorna Saiz – California State Fresno

>> Candace Richardson - Indiana University East

>> Pratik Patel – City University of New York (my apologies)

>> Patrick Burke – UCLA

>> Lisa Fiedor – North Carolina State

>> Dan Comden – University of Washington

>> Saroj Primlani – North Carolina State

>> Kathleen Cahill - MIT

>>

>> Joe Humbert

>> Assistive Technology Specialist

>> Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)

>> Office: IT 214E

>> Email: johumber at iupui.edu

>> Phone: 317-274-4378

>> Cell: 847-431-6545

>> AIM:ATCIUPUI

>>

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> Dawn Hunziker

> Assistive Technology Coordinator

>

> University of Arizona

> Disability Resource Center

>

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> P.O. Box 210095

> Tucson, AZ 85721

>

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> (520) 626-5500 (FAX)

>

> Web Page: http://drc.arizona.edu

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