(Floe) Accessibility Metadata Automatic Generation by Content Type

(Floe) Accessibility Metadata Automatic Generation by Content Type

Based on content type, it is possible to facilitate the authoring of metadata by automatically generating values based on what is known about the content's context and content type.

Table: Metadata by Content Type

This table attempts to organize the Access for All metadata according to content type - the idea is that certain types of content only require certain metadata.

Example 1: metadata for a video file will likely have Auditory and Visual metadata specified.

Example 2: metadata for an audio file will not require visual metadata - thus those metadata fields can be hidden from the user.

Thus it is possible to:

  1. Only show metadata fields that are required by certain media type and hide unnecessary metadata fields.

  2. Provide sensible defaults based on content type.

AC says: I've added some "questions" to the table as follows:
[x] = I don't think this should be available
[?] = Why is this available? I either don't understand why, or I'm not sure about it

 

Content Type

Auditory

Tactile

Textual

Visual

Color
Dependent

Chart
on Visual

Diagram
on Visual

Math
on Visual

Music
on Visual

Text
on Visual

Alt
Text 



Captions

Transcript

Flashing Hazard

No Flashing Hazard

Motion
Simulation Hazard 

No Motion
Simulation Hazard

Sound Hazard

No Sound Hazard

Content Type

Auditory

Tactile

Textual

Visual

Color
Dependent

Chart
on Visual

Diagram
on Visual

Math
on Visual

Music
on Visual

Text
on Visual

Alt
Text 



Captions

Transcript

Flashing Hazard

No Flashing Hazard

Motion
Simulation Hazard 

No Motion
Simulation Hazard

Sound Hazard

No Sound Hazard

Music / Dialog

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Video

 

[x: use text-on-visual instead]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Captions

 

 

?

 

 

 

 

 

[x]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Image

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Image: diagram

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[x: here, "captions" have a very specific meaning: "text for the audio portion"]

 

 

 

 

[?: what about animated gifs?]

 

Image: text

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[x: see above]

 

 

 

 

[?: see above]

 

Image: math

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[x: see above]

 

 

 

 

[?: see above]

 

Image: chart

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[x: see above]

 

 

 

 

[?: see above]

 

ChemML

 

 

?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MathML

 

 

?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sign Language

 

[?]

[?]

[x]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[x]

 

 

Braille

[?]

[x]

[?]

[?]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Transcript (text)

[?]

[?]

[x]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Long Description (text)

 

 

?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Audio Description