Re: Proposed clarification to checkpoints 3.3, 3.5, 3.6

aloha, ian!

for what it's worth, i agree with your second assertion:

quote
2. that freezing/pausing video is a special case of UAAG 4.6
unquote

but don't understand why the 2 choices -- freeze or play/don't play -- are 
mutually exclusive...  the choice of how to, or whether to, control 
multimedia files from loading, flickering, blinking and the like should be 
controllable

    This page contains a background sound, would you like to play it?

or

"This page contains blinking content--would you like to:
A) load it,
B) not load it,
C) load it, but keep it from blinking,
D) load it and set the blink rate to...
[ ] accept as default and do not ask me again

gregory.

At 10:36 PM 6/9/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Ian Jacobs wrote:
> >
> >  3.3 Allow the user to turn on and off rendering of video.
> >      [Priority 1]
>
>An additional note: freezing (pausing) video is an
>important special case of checkpoint 4.6:
>
>   Allow the user to start, stop, pause, advance,
>   and rewind audio, video, and animations. [Priority 1]
>
>  - Ian
>
>
> > [1] http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/WD-UAAG10-20000507
>
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