Re: Wide Review request for DAPT

I sadly concur with David Fazio - the naming issue here is problematic.

Nigel, would the TT WG consider renaming this to DADPT (highling the D in
Description:  Dubbing and Audio Description Profiles of TTML2)

JF

On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 10:16 AM David Fazio <dfazio@helixopp.com> wrote:

> I would seriously consider renaming this document. It’s confusing for
> those of us that are familiar with “ADAPT”.
>
> 1. DAPT looks like a typo, as if it should be ADAPT
>
> 2. The very first sentence begins with A DAPT document. Again, it looks
> like a typo where a space was included, after the A, by autocorrect. It
> looks too much like ADAPT.
>
> This message was Sent from my iPhone. Please excuse any typographic
> errors.
>
> On Jul 17, 2023, at 9:04 AM, Nigel Megitt <nigel.megitt@bbc.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 
>
> Dear Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group,
>
> The W3C Timed Text Working Group (TTWG) (Charter
> <https://www.w3.org/2023/04/timed-text-wg-charter.html#coordination>)
> wishes to inform the Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group of the
> Working Draft of the Dubbing and Audio description Profiles of TTML2 (DAPT)
> Recommendation at https://www.w3.org/TR/dapt/ .
>
> DAPT is a TTML-based format for the exchange of transcripts and scripts
> among authoring, prompting and playback tools in the localization and audio
> description pipelines. A DAPT document is designed to carry pertinent
> information for dubbing or audio description such as type of script,
> dialogue, descriptions, timing, metadata, original language transcribed
> text, translated text, language information, and audio mixing instructions,
> and to be extensible to allow user-defined annotations or additional future
> features.
>
> The TTWG invites feedback on DAPT and seeks input on the questions raised
> as issues within the Working Draft, for example on whether it is important
> to support direct embedding or external referencing of recorded audio.
>
> If you have feedback, we welcome it either in response to this message, or
> as issues raised against the DAPT repository, at
> https://github.com/w3c/dapt/issues/ , and request that any feedback is
> provided by September 10th 2023.
>
> Please note that we will be making a separate Horizontal Review request to
> APA WG as required by the Process in due course.
>
> Looking forward to hearing from you.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Nigel Megitt, co-Chair W3C TTWG
>
>
>
>

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