Multimedia Accessibility

" * Posted by Justin Harris on September 4, 2010 at 12:20pm in Bugs and Issues Hello, I am a blind network creator and have noticed a few problems with ning accessibility. For the most part, the platform is quite accessible. But here's what I've found. 1. The area where you can add or take away features in your network is not accessible because of the drag and drop. While drag and drop can be done in some instances, it is very dificult, and at other times, it doesn't work at all. I always have to have someone help me with it. 2. I can't get ning chat to work. I've even tried third party solutions, but they use flash, which is not very blind friendly. I don't know if anything can be done about either of these problems, but I really hope so. I still want a site that looks good, but at the same time, accessibility in those areas would be nice. I don't know if there is some kind of script ning could run to see if someone is using a screen reader, and if so, could they generate a different admin interface? That way, those who don't need any changes could keep using the service as normal. But then blind users could check or uncheck items in a feature list. Then, depending on the feature, maybe ning could auto place the feature in a good spot, so that the users network still remains organizedd"

"Draft only Showing Revision 0, created 06/06/2012 by chrhunt ." Banner added, edit link disabled, task added by the Amara software chrhunt joined Amara June 6, 2012, 11:49 a.m. and is not member of the Music Captioning team. S/he therefore cannot know that a task has been assigned to him/her by the software: "Transcribe English Subtitles Video: Ryan Van Sickle- 'When It Rains Awa... (02:36) Subtitles: latest draft transcribed by chrhunt" June 12, 2012: issues persist.

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"Draft only Showing Revision 3, created 06/08/2012 by Claude Almansi . " Amara software added this banner, disabled the Edit subtitles link, and added a task for this video on this revision: "Transcribe German Subtitles Video: Panel @ m4music Festival 2012: «Eve... (01:15:22) Subtitles: latest draft transcribed by Claude Almansi " June 12, 2012: issues persist

"Draft only Showing Revision 2, created 06/08/2012 by chrhunt." Banner added, edit link disabled, task added by the Amara software chrhunt joined Amara June 6, 2012, 11:49 a.m. and is not member of the Music Captioning team. S/he therefore cannot know that a task has been assigned to him by the software: "Transcribe English Subtitles Video: Trapped in Technology - Pilot (02:53) Subtitles: latest draft transcribed by chrhunt " June 12, 2012: issues persit.

June 14, 2012: issue removed by Darren Bridenbeck (manual fix)

"Draft only Showing Revision 2, created 06/08/2012 by Peter Maloof ." Banner added, Edit subtitles link disabled. Apparently no task added to the video.

"Draft only Showing Revision 0, created 06/06/2012 by chrhunt ." Banner added, edit link disabled, task added by the Amara software chrhunt joined Amara June 6, 2012, 11:49 a.m. and is not member of the Music Captioning team. S/he therefore cannot know that a task has been assigned to him/her by the software: "Transcribe English Subtitles Video: Ryan Van Sickle- 'When We Were Youn... (05:28) Subtitles: latest draft transcribed by chrhunt" June 12, 2012: issues persist.

"Draft only Showing Revision 0, created 06/06/2012 by rsr68 . " Banner added, edit link disabled, task added by the Amara software rsr68 joined Amara June 6, 2012, 2:31 p.m. and is not member of the Music Captioning team. S/he therefore cannot know that a task has been assigned to him/her by the software: "Transcribe English Subtitles Video: Quick Mix knowledge session with So... (03:32) Subtitles: latest draft transcribed by rsr68 " June 12, 2012: issues persist

June 14, 2012: issue removed by Darren Bridenbeck (manual fix)

"Draft only Subtitles translated from Italian. Showing Revision 3, created 06/08/2012 by Raissa Mendes ." Amara software added this banner, disabled the Edit Subtitles link, but there is no task for the video, hence no normal way for Raissa Mendes to edit her subs, should she wish to - and above all, should there be one: now none for these subs or for other subs of this video can be seen (June 11, 2012) June 12, 2012: issues persist

June 14, 2012: issue removed by Darren Bridenbeck (manual fix)

"Draft only Subtitles translated from Italian. Showing Revision 0, created 06/07/2012 by Claude Almansi ." Amara software added this banner, disabled the Edit Subtitles link and created a task assigned to me (Claude Almansi): "Transcribe English Subtitles Video: Francesco Salvi.-(Esatto) (03:52) Subtitles: latest draft translated by Claude Almansi" June 12, 2012: issues persist

June 14, 2012: issue removed by Darren Bridenbeck (manual fix)

"Draft only Subtitles translated from English. Showing Revision 1, created 06/08/2012 by Dwi Rianto . " Banner added, Edit Subtitles link disabled: by Amara software or by team settings? Clicking the "View tasks for this video" link leads to a "Sorry, no tasks here." message

"Draft only Subtitles translated from English. Showing Revision 0, created 06/08/2012 by Laura Mallorquín . " Amara software added banner, disabled Edit subtitles link, but didn't create a task for these subs or for this video. June 12, 2012: issues persist

June 14, 2012: issue removed by Darren Bridenbeck (manual fix)

"Draft only Showing Revision 0, created 06/08/2012 by Margherita Martignoni ." Amara software added this banner, disactivated the Edit subtitles link, but didn't add a task for these subs. Video added to Music Captioning team Margherita Martignoni is not a member of Music Captioning: she therefore cannot have caused the task that caused the banner etc. June 12, 2012: issues persist

June 14, 2012: issue persists, but then this link didn't get transfered to this Multimedia Accessibility group with the my other links tagged taskblocked, so these subs didn't undergo the manual fix that removed the Amara task blocks in the other subs. I am able to enter the widget version of the subs by main page via Start a new translation in the main page, then choosing Subtitle into Italian (100%) (normal link, not grayed) Directly from video (more work) I was able to change a few things, but though I saved the subs marking them as complete, the banner is still there. I.e. the "lying to the software" workaround indicated in http://support.universalsubtitles.org/categories/6573/forums/28027/topics/4905 only works to prevent the taskblocking, but cannot remove it.

"Showing Revision 2, created 06/08/2012 by chrhunt ." Banner added, edit link disabled, task added by the Amara software chrhunt joined Amara June 6, 2012, 11:49 a.m. and is not member of the Music Captioning team. S/he therefore cannot know that a task has been assigned to him/her by the software: "Transcribe English Subtitles Video: Ryan Van Sickle- 'Into The Night' H... (04:07) Subtitles: latest draft transcribed by chrhunt " June 12, 2012: issues persist.

June 14, 2012: issue removed by Darren Bridenbeck (manual fix)

"Showing Revision 3, created Yesterday by Avatar of Claude Almansi . " Yesterday = June 9, 2011 (?) "Avatar of Claude Almansi" is not a member of the Occupy Wall Street team. When viewing these subs signed in as this Avatar, only "Revision 0 - 02/07/2012 - by Claude Almansi" was showing, made 4 months before the Amara software started taskblocking videos. There was a "Roll back to this version" button, so I used it to see what would happen. The reversion removed the "Draft only Showing Revision 2, created 06/07/2012 by Claude Almansi . " banner of the former revision and reactivated the formerly disabled Edit Subtitles link. Of course, it also suppressed the subs that had been added in Revisions 1 and 2. All revisions can be viewed by admins (perhaps also managers members) of the team but they cannot roll back to any of them. The task added by the Amara software to these subtitles at the time of Revision 1 remains: "Transcribe English Subtitles Video: Michael Moore on the Rachel Maddow Show - Part 1 (11/3/11) (08:23) Subtitles: latest draft transcribed by Avatar of Claude Almansi" Comment: In this case, I control both "Claude Almansi" and "Avatar of Claude Almansi" users, and I saved the Revision 2 subtitles as Claude Almansi (admin at Music Captioning) before reverting to Revision 0 with the avatar (not member of the team). But the same rolling back could be done on any taskblocked subs of the team by any Amara user who is not a member of it, thus making successive work unavailable

14/06/2012 The situation remains identical: as admin, I can't roll back to the version preceding the one in which, as a non member, I rolled back to version0

"Solutions → Amara FAQ and How-to Articles → Transcribing and Translating"

Still obsolete, in spite of ticket http://support.universalsubtitles.org/support/tickets/822 April 25, 2012.