Specific Technical Information
Media Players
VLC http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Sublime Video http://sublimevideo.net/ (user can choose keyboard control only)
MediaElement.js http://mediaelementjs.com/
Video.js http://www.videojs.com/
Audio & Video File Types
Different media players play different file formats.
Some formats work better with assistive devices.
Some file formats are easier to edit.
WebVTT: The Web Video Text Tracks Format http://dev.w3.org/html5/webvtt/
What Caption Format? (Slides 41-49)
From Captioning & Web Video by Mark Gamble SC AT EXPO 3/26/2014
http://scvrd.net/downloads/pdfs/Captioning2014.pdf
File Conversion & Compression Tools
MPEG Streamclip http://www.squared5.com/ A "powerful free video converter, player, editor for Mac and Windows... You can use [it] to open and play most movie formats ... edit them with Cut, Copy, Paste, and Trim; set In/Out points..."
Miro Video Converter (Windows, Mac, Linux) http://www.mirovideoconverter.com/ Convert to MP4, WebM (vp8), Ogg... Android, iPad...
VLC http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ This media player also does media conversion
Format Factory http://www.pcfreetime.com/index.html (Recommended as a way to 'fuzz' out the faces of people in videos, but I don't see that on their list of features.)
Image Compression for Macs [PDF link] http://www.coedu.usf.edu/main/chalkandwire/resources.htm
Image Compression for Windows [PDF link] http://www.coedu.usf.edu/main/chalkandwire/resources.htm
Text Editors
Subtitle Workshop http://www.urusoft.net/products.php?cat=sw&lang=1
TextWranger (Mac) http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/
Notepad ++ http://notepad-plus-plus.org
Photo Editing Tools
Note that these editing tools do not have specific color-blind checkers or correction features. The resource that has been doing that for many years is VisCheck http://www.vischeck.com Also see the page on this site about Specific Populations -> Colorblindness
Fotor Photo Editor for Mac http://www.fotor.com/ “online photo editing
Picasa Digital Photo Software from Google http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/imagemanagement/gr/picasa.htm
PhotoPad Free Image Editor forMac (NCH Software) http://download.cnet.com/PhotoPad-Free-Image-Editor/3000-2192_4-75953423.html
Paintbrush http://paintbrush.sourceforge.net/downloads/ sourceforge (Soggy Waffles?)
Paintbrush http://paintbrush.en.softonic.com/mac by softonic
Resources to Explore Further
New links that I find but have not yet looked at closely enough to add to my lists.
Links text editors
One Tab (chrome extension) http://www.one-tab.com
"Whenever you find yourself with too many tabs, click the OneTab icon to convert all of your tabs into a list. When you need to access the tabs again, you can either restore them individually or all at once.”
Text Editors for Windows
Notepad++ http://notepad-plus-plus.org
Vim http://www.vim.org/download.php
Ultra Edit (commercial) http://www.ultraedit.com/products/ultraedit.html
Text Editors for Mac
jEdit http://www.jedit.org
jEdit Quick Start Guide http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=quickstart
Editra http://editra.org
TextWrangler http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/
Sublime Text http://www.sublimetext.com
Komodo Edit for Windows http://download.cnet.com/Komodo-Edit-for-Windows/3000-2352_4-10700439.html
Komodo Edit for Mac http://download.cnet.com/Komodo-Edit/3000-2212_4-139739.html
Plain Text Editor http://download.cnet.com/Plain-Text-Editor/3000-2079_4-10138406.html
(Commercial)
bbedit (commercial) http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/ Cross Platform - one license can be used on multiple computers with Mac, Windows or Linux ($70)
Use Google Drive to convert Images to Text (OCR) http://www.thewindowsclub.com/google-drive-convert-image-to-text
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