SEO Meets Accessibility For The Deaf

TechCrunch announced yesterday that it has enabled video commenting, so that instead of writing a comment, you can just look into your webcam and say what's on your mind. It makes sense that people would like this, cause writing can be pain sometimes (no typos on webcams! but make sure you don't have spinach in your teeth). Still, this post on ReadWriteWeb, explaining all of the reasons that it might not work.

Personally, I hate the use of online video when text would suffice. Unless it's an interview with someone whose personality is just dazzling, please let me read the transcript instead. Otherwise, a video should have music or graphics or something other than just words, to justify itself. Blog comments aren't likely to qualify, so just a warning: anyone that wants me to read their comments anywhere, better effin' write them, cause I ain't sitting through your video. And as RWW points out: there's no way to link with video.

Another big problem... search engines can't scan them (at least for now, and probably for a long time to come), so all that content just goes into a black hole of un-findability.

But I did hear something interesting today while listening to the CNET conference call. CEO Neil Ashe, in talking up a new web video venture, noted that it would be close captioned for the hearing impaired. That's cool, and that also means search engines can crawl the video! Sounds like a clever marriage of accessibility with SEO. That doesn't necessarily make a business case for CC-ing every video that a company puts out, but it's a little bonus.

Comments

[YouTube]

Audio4fun funny stuff makers feature AV Voice Changer Software, AV Music Morpher, AV Movie Morpher, AV Webcam Morpher and AV VoizGame. The most established one, AV Voice Changer Software has evolved from a fun chat tool to be a do- it- all home recording studio for producing sound clips of all kinds, from business to entertainment, and has been downloaded more than a million times on CNET alone.

[Swapnil Anand]

One of the most important factors in Search Engine Optimization is the number of incoming links to your website, the relevance of the website linking to you, the anchor text used for the link, and the page ranking of the webpage linking to you. We have tried it and have found it very useful to increase our page rank on google. We are a tender information portal, www.tradereader.com. We used tenders as our anchor text. We suggest any site to try and increase the backlinks.

[prasad]

One of the most important factors in Search Engine Optimization is the number of incoming links to your website, the relevance of the website linking to you, the anchor text used for the link, and the page ranking of the webpage linking to you. We have tried it and have found it very useful to increase our page rank on google. We are a tender information portal, www.tendertiger.com. We used tenders as our anchor text. We suggest any site to try and increase the backlinks

[buy viagra]

That's cool, and that also means search engines can crawl the video! Sounds like a clever marriage of accessibility with SEO. That doesn't necessarily make a business case for CC-ing every video that a company puts out, but it's a little bonus.

[generic cialis]

That's cool, and that also means search engines can crawl the video! Sounds like a clever marriage of accessibility with SEO.

[viagra online]

So before you go wishing we could live in a world without manganese, you might want to at least get the details on the metal. Oh, and surprise, it's been soaring

[dosage]

Can you upload video? I want see this

[Father Eulogy]

Useful info. Hope to see more good posts in the future.

[dr dre studio black]

I guess I am not the only one having all the enjoyment here!

[local seo services]

Giving them the chance to participate in any kind of online socialization despite of their physical disabilities eliminates discrimination.

[free seo tools]

As our technology evolves we never stop making things even simpler for us. This is one of the proof. It's a good thing that we can now hear the voice of the deaf even they can't even hear us.