Add ".chif" (C-Hear Intelligent File) to supported file types

[kennleuzinger]

Hello, I have a question. What is the administrative and vetting process to add a totally new file format to the media section of WordPress websites?
This type of file format would make websites more digitally accessible to people with disabilities – especially people with visual impairments.

We looked into different technologies and wanted to use WordPress because of its ubiquity and its commitment to make the internet a better place for people with disabilities. Please inform me of this process as soon as you can. Thank you.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Hi @kennleuzinger, welcome to WordPress Trac! Thanks for the ticket.

Which file format would you like to add?

[kennleuzinger]

Hello,
We would like to add a ".chif" C-Hear Intelligent FIle.
This is our company...
​http://c-hear.com/

Here is a video we did a while ago.

​https://vimeo.com/320444474
This video was when it was going to be a plugin. Now I think we can load it directly.

Thanks,
kenn

[kennleuzinger]

Thank you so much for the welcome!

Here is an example of the ".chif" file in regular HTML.

​http://c-hear.com/sandbox/

It consists of a picture, an embedded sound (you can either upload a sound file or record one), text (you can either upload a text file or type something), and meta data - which you will have to type.
Here is the link to our builder so you can try it out (build and download a couple).
​https://app.c-hear.com/

Thanks,
kenn

[afercia]

Discussed during today's accessibility bug scrub and agreed this issue doesn't seem related to the accessibility of WP admin or the content it produces. Removing the accessibility focus.

Re: new mime types, to our understanding, new mime types are added only when support is large and the format is, in a way, “standardized”. In all other cases it’s considered plugin territory. Other, more experienced, contributors may provide better context.

[audrasjb]

Hi,

Yes, I think it's clearly "plugin territory".

For what it worth: here is a PHP snippet you could use for your plugin or in the functions.php file of your (child) theme to allow this mime type in WordPress:

function wp_47904_mime_type( $mime_types ) {
        $mime_types['chif'] = 'application/octet-stream';
        return $mime_types;
}
add_filter( 'upload_mimes', 'wp_47904_mime_type', 1, 1 );

[kennleuzinger]

Replying to afercia:

Discussed during today's accessibility bug scrub and agreed this issue doesn't seem related to the accessibility of WP admin or the content it produces. Removing the accessibility focus.

Re: new mime types, to our understanding, new mime types are added only when support is large and the format is, in a way, “standardized”. In all other cases it’s considered plugin territory. Other, more experienced, contributors may provide better context.

One of the main reasons we developed this file format was accessibility, but I understand.

[kennleuzinger]

Thank you!

Replying to audrasjb:

Hi,

Yes, I think it's clearly "plugin territory".

For what it worth: here is a PHP snippet you could use for your plugin or in the functions.php file of your (child) theme to allow this mime type in WordPress:

function wp_47904_mime_type( $mime_types ) {
        $mime_types['chif'] = 'application/octet-stream';
        return $mime_types;
}
add_filter( 'upload_mimes', 'wp_47904_mime_type', 1, 1 );

[desrosj]

Closing this one out as it has been deemed plugin territory for now.