title: Accessible streaming content
abstract: Make sure your Web site is offering quality service to all your users. The article provides some tips and tactics for making your streaming media accessible. Accessibility of streaming content for people with disabilities is often not part of the spec for multimedia projects, but it certainly affects your quality of service. Most of the resources available on Web accessibility deal with HTML. Fortunately, rich media and streaming content developers have a growing number of experts to turn to for information and assistance. The essentials of providing accessible streaming content are simple: blind and visually impaired people need audio to discern important visual detail and interface elements, while deaf and hard-of-hearing people need text to access sound effects and dialog. Actually implementing these principles is quite a challenge, though. Now due to a relatively new law in the US, known as Section 508, dealing with accessibility issues is becoming an essential part of publishing on the Web
keyphrases: accessible streaming content Web site quality service streaming media multimedia projects Web accessibility HTML streaming content developers visually impaired people visual detail interface elements hard-of-hearing people sound effects Section 508 accessibility issues content providers United States disabled users blind people deaf people Web publishing