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RE: Captions for audio clips

From: Bruce Bailey <bbailey@clark.net>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 13:26:34 -0500
Message-ID: <01BF4BB7.0C92AA20.bbailey@clark.net>
To: "'Robert Neff'" <robneff@home.com>, "w3c-wai-gl@w3.org" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
If there is "content" in the clip (EITHER video or audio), then by not 
having alternate media available (of which a transcript is the easiest and 
most obvious) you have shut out either the blind or the deaf.

This is a P1 violation!  How could it be otherwise?

On Monday, December 20, 1999 10:39 PM, Robert Neff [SMTP:robneff@home.com] 
wrote:
> from an implementation standpoint, what does everyone think about having
> text transcripts as P2 for a video clip and synchronized captions P3?
Received on Tuesday, 21 December 1999 13:28:22 GMT

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