See Understanding Techniques for WCAG Success Criteria for important information about the usage of these informative techniques and how they relate to the normative WCAG 2.0 success criteria. The Applicability section explains the scope of the technique, and the presence of techniques for a specific technology does not imply that the technology can be used in all situations to create content that meets WCAG 2.0.
Adobe Flash-based Content
Adobe Flash CS3 and later
This technique relates to:
See User Agent Support Notes for FLASH9. Also see Flash Technology Notes.
The objective of this technique is to provide an option for people who have hearing impairments or otherwise have trouble hearing the sound and dialogue in synchronized media to be able to choose to view captions as an alternative to audio information. With this technique all of the dialogue and important sounds are provided as text in a fashion that allows the text to be hidden unless the user requests it. As a result they are visible only when needed. This can be achieved using the FLVPlayback and FLVPlaybackCaptioning components. Note: when using FLVPlayback skins the closed caption button is accessible by default, but if implementing custom skins authors need to test to verify that the button is accessible.
Use an external tool (such as Magpie or a simple text editor) to create a timed Text captions xml file. Stop and play the video content, and for each relevant part of audio information (including speech, important background noises and event sounds) include the start and end time code as well as the textual alternative. Tools like Magpie have advanced features to make this process easier, whereas a text editor requires you to read the timecodes from your media player and include them in the XML as illustrated in the sample captions document below
In Flash, create a new instance of the FLVPlayback component on your stage, and set its contentPath value to your flv video file using the 'Component inspector' or 'Parameters' panel.
Set the 'Skin' parameter to use a skin which includes the CC (closed captions) button.
From the components list also create an instance of the FLVPlayback captioning component. In the 'Component inspector' panel set its 'Source' parameter to the name of your timed text xml file. The captions will automatically placed at the bottom of the player's frame.
Example Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<tt xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2006/04/ttaf1"
xmlns:tts="http://www.w3.org/2006/04/ttaf1#styling">
<head>
<styling>
<style id="defaultSpeaker" tts:backgroundColor="black"
tts:color="white" tts:fontFamily="SansSerif" tts:fontSize="12"
tts:fontStyle="normal" tts:fontWeight="normal"
tts:textAlign="left" tts:textDecoration="none"/>
<style id="defaultCaption" tts:backgroundColor="black"
tts:color="white" tts:fontFamily="Arial" tts:fontSize="12"
tts:fontStyle="normal" tts:fontWeight="normal"
tts:textAlign="center" tts:textDecoration="none"/>
</styling>
</head>
<body id="thebody" style="defaultCaption">
<div xml:lang="en">
<p begin="0:00:00.20" end="0:00:02.20">If there were nothing in
our universe</p>
<p begin="0:00:02.20" end="0:00:05.65">the fabric of space-time
would be flat.</p>
<p begin="0:00:05.65" end="0:00:08.88">But add a mass, and
dimples form within it.</p>
<p begin="0:00:16.61" end="0:00:19.84">Smaller objects that
approach that large mass</p>
<p begin="0:00:19.84" end="0:00:23.41">will follow the curve in
space-time around it.</p>
<p begin="0:00:32.64" end="0:00:36.84">Our nearest star, the
sun, has formed such a dimple</p>
<p begin="0:00:36.84" end="0:00:38.00">and our tiny planet
Earth</p>
<p begin="0:00:38.00" end="0:00:41.50">goes along for the ride
in the curve of its dimple</p>
<p begin="0:00:41.50" end="0:00:43.80">staying in orbit around
the sun.</p>
<p begin="0:00:45.67" end="0:01:55.00"/>
</div>
</body>
</tt>
This is demonstrated in working example of Adding a timed text caption file to Flash. The working example of Adding a timed text caption file to Flash is available.
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http://ncam.wgbh.org/invent_build/web_multimedia/tools-guidelines
Watch all video content displayed by your Flash movie. Ensure that:
Captions are available for all audio content, either turned on by default or as a user preference.
The captions properly describe all audio information contained in the video.
#1 and #2 are true
If this is a sufficient technique for a success criterion, failing this test procedure does not necessarily mean that the success criterion has not been satisfied in some other way, only that this technique has not been successfully implemented and can not be used to claim conformance.