- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:34:17 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Christian Vogler <christian.vogler@gallaudet.edu>
- cc: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>, public-texttracks@w3.org, Loretta Guarino Reid <lorettaguarino@google.com>
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012, Christian Vogler wrote: > > It's because these features have different priorities. Live TV > programming is a big, big use case for the deaf and hard of hearing > communities, and one that will become relevant on March 30 next year, > when the live programming requirements kick in. (Section 203 doesn't > kick in until 2014, so there's some time left for web browsers, though.) Wait, what are these new requirements we're now talking about? > Character edge attributes don't have the same kind of priority. > > Also, re simple language and easy read: that is easily covered by a > separate track, isn't it? No need to do anything special in WebVTT for > this. The requirements in the CFR suggests it has to be explicitly marked up. (Admittedly, the requirements are _incredibly_ vague, so I don't know if that's what was intended. As a whole, I'm rather disappointed my tax dollars are being spent on such work. These regulations are terrible. They totally misunderstand how the Web works, they have entirely inappropriate requirements, etc.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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