- From: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:23:07 -0800 (PST)
- To: "'HTML Accessibility Task Force'" <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Colleagues, One Action Item that has come out of the work of the Media Sub-Team was the enclosed effort from Sean Hayes and Geoff Freed, which addresses the need we identified for neutral and informative guidance regarding the creation of captions (etc.). [ACTION 98: http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/track/actions/98 ] At this time, I have been asked to submit this as a Call for Consensus, the actual question being: Does the HTML5 a11yTF concur with this statement, and with the action plan of submitting it to WAI and the WCAG WG? As is common at W3C, I will be asking for lazy consensus: failing to say anything contrary signals support of this action. Please forward any comments to this list. Thanks! JF Draft Statement: ================== WCAG 2.0 is clear about the need to add both captions and descriptions to multimedia; however, the requirements do not offer basic advice on how captions and descriptions should be authored and delivered. Guidelines for multimedia accessibility do exist but they are usually targeted at specific technology or regions (see partial listing below). We propose that WCAG 2.0 include a neutral set of techniques documenting best practices for how captions and descriptions should be created and integrated into multimedia in order to best meet WCAG requirements. ================== Creating Accessible iTunes U Content: http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/wgbh.org.2010579900 Effective Practices for Description of Science Content within Digital Talking Books: http://ncam.wgbh.org/experience_learn/educational_media/stemdx Authoring Captions for Flash: http://ncam.wgbh.org/invent_build/web_multimedia/tools-guidelines/authorin g-captions-for-flash Captioning Key: http://www.cfv.org/caai/nadh7.pdf Suggested Styles and Conventions for Closed Captioning (Media Access Group at WGBH): http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/mag/services/captioning/faq/sugg-styles-co nv-faq.html IBM Web Checklist (Checkpoint 1.2a: Captions): http://www-03.ibm.com/able/guidelines/web/webcaptions.html IBM Web Checklist (Checkpoint 1.2b: Descriptions): http://www-03.ibm.com/able/guidelines/web/webaudiodescriptions.html G3ict e-Accessibility Policy Toolkit for Persons with Disabilities: http://www.e-accessibilitytoolkit.org/toolkit/technology_areas/television WebAIM Web Captioning Overview: http://webaim.org/techniques/captions/
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