Re: wording of "dialog"

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:27 AM, WCAG 2.0 Comment Form <nobody@w3.org> wrote:
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> Name: Makoto Ueki
> Email: makoto.ueki@gmail.com
> Affiliation: JIS Working Group
> Document: W2
> Item Number: Appendix A: Glossary
> Part of Item:
> Comment Type: editorial
> Summary of Issue: wording of "dialog"
> Comment (Including rationale for any proposed change):
> We thought that "dialog" means "a conversation between two or more persons" in general. For caption, it is not limited to the conversation.
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> Proposed Change:
> For example, change "dialog" to "speech/dialog".
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Response from the Working Group
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We are revising the definition of "captions" as follows:

"synchronized visual and/or text alternative for both speech and
non-speech audio information needed to understand the media content"

Loretta Guarino Reid, WCAG WG Co-Chair
Gregg Vanderheiden, WCAG WG Co-Chair
Michael Cooper, WCAG WG Staff Contact


On behalf of the WCAG Working Group