RE: Captioned music videos (was: #320 and REF 1.1a ability to be expressed in words)

Joe,make yourself useful for a change and just send the information.
We're trying to get this right and it would be grat if you'd actually
help instead of sniping at us.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Clark [mailto:joeclark@joeclark.org] 
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 1:11 pm
To: WAI-GL
Subject: Re: Captioned music videos (was: #320 and REF 1.1a ability to
be expressed in words)



> Actually, maybe I spoke too hastily.  We've been trying to persuade 
> people to caption music videos (as part of AIR Interactive and the 
> SXSW Interactive Festival), with some success.

Thousands upon thousands of videos have been captioned since circa 1989,
when Ed Stasium, Donna Horn, and I got the whole idea off the ground.

<http://joeclark.org/access/captioning/ccvids.html>

The concept must not be presented as unprecedented or innovative.

> I'd hate for the "musical
> performances" thing to stop that.  But perhaps that comes under 1.2 at

> any rate, since 1.2 applies to time-based presentations?

Wait till you all find out that instrumental music videos and classical
concerts have been and are captioned. I'll just save that up till later
if you want.


> -----Original Message-----

Oh, nice one.

> -----Original Message-----

Bonus.

> -----Original Message-----

Why go for two when you can have three?


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Received on Monday, 15 September 2003 10:16:12 UTC