- From: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:52:44 -0700 (PDT)
- To: "'Hironobu Takagi'" <TAKAGIH@jp.ibm.com>, "'Masatomo Kobayashi'" <MSTM@jp.ibm.com>
- Cc: <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Hironobu Takagi wrote: > > Finally, one of my team members will officially > join the HTML5 Accessibility Task Force. > Masatomo has been working for the audio description > project, especially for the experiments in Japan > and in US with WGBH. > He can be the bridge between the open source authoring > tool work and aiBrowser on Eclipse.org. > He is now checking resources on the Web. > If you have any suggestion for our involvement (beyond > the mailing-list), please let us know. > We are looking forward to working with you. Hiro, this is great news! Hello and welcome to Masatomo. (For those unaware or do not remember, Hiro presented IBM Research – Tokyo's work on descriptive audio using synthesized voice at the Face-to-Face here at Stanford last November, as well he and his team were at the CSUN conference in March in San Diego. It is - IMHO - wicked cool! A Word Doc can be found here: http://www.letsgoexpo.com/utilities/File/viewfile.cfm?LCID=4091&eID=800002 18 and perhaps Hiro you could point us to web-based [HTML] resources too?) Masatomo, you might want to start by reviewing the draft specifications that are currently under discussion: http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/Media_MultitrackAPI and http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/Media_TextAssociations. Silvia Pfeiffer recently wrote a blog post that is more easily readable as an introduction, but as she notes it is not as technically accurate. It can be found at http://blog.gingertech.net/2010/04/11/introducing-media-accessibilit-into- html5-media/. There has also been a fair bit of discussion recently about choosing one or more appropriate time-stamp formats to be referenced in the HTML5 Specification/Standard - this discussion is very much up in the air at this time. As well, while not officially 'W3C', the WHATWG has started collecting examples of time-aligned text displays (captions, subtitles, chapter markers etc) and is extrapolating requirements from these in their wiki at: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Timed_tracks http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Use_cases_for_timed_tracks_rendered_over_video _by_the_UA http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Use_cases_for_API-level_access_to_timed_tracks (I believe screen captures, etc. of your work with descriptive text would be relevant here!) Masatomo, while the Media sub-group does not often have conference calls, the Chairs of the Accessibility Task Force have asked that we start having them with some greater frequency now in an attempt to resolving some of the open issues, as well as attach milestone dates to these issues in an effort to move forward. Unfortunately, the key voices involved are spread around the globe, so choosing a good time for all is difficult; however we are trying to respect everyone's local schedules as much as possible. We have a call scheduled for Wednesday, April 28, 2010 at 3:00 PM San Francisco time. To review local times, please see: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=4&day=28&year=2 010&hour=15&min=0&sec=0&p1=224 This translates to the following general times: London: Wed 11:00 PM Amsterdam/Oslo: Wed-Thurs midnight Boston: Wed 6:00 PM Cupertino/Mountain View: Wed 3:00 PM Beijing: Thurs 6:00 AM Tokyo: Thurs 7:00 AM Sydney: Thurs 8:00 AM Finally, if you want more background, feel free to read up on past email threads at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/ or ask questions here. Welcome aboard! JF ============================ John Foliot Program Manager Stanford Online Accessibility Program http://soap.stanford.edu Stanford University Tel: 650-862-4603 Co-chair HTML5 Accessibility Task Force (Media Sub Group) http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/html-task-force ============================
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