Making Multimedia Accessible
Multimedia like Flash movies, sound files, and QuickTime clips are harder to make accessible, because you aren't just working with a single static image, so you can't just sum up the information in the multimedia file with a simple text description. Moreover, accessibility tools usually can't pick out the text inside a multimedia file for conversion to spoken words or Braille.
Unfortunately, there isn't a quick and easy way to make multimedia accessible. The World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C, offers some solutions, but they're all on the labor-intensive side, and have an unwieldy, counterintuitive feel. For instance, according to the W3C, your multimedia presentation should include a synchronized audio soundtrack ...
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