- From: Geoff Freed <geoff_freed@wgbh.org>
- Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:29:19 -0500
- To: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- CC: Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>, Eric Carlson <eric.carlson@apple.com>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
________________________________________ From: Silvia Pfeiffer [silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 6:57 PM To: Geoff Freed Cc: Philip Jägenstedt; Eric Carlson; HTML Accessibility Task Force Subject: Re: [media] Moving forward with captions / subtitles On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Geoff Freed <geoff_freed@wgbh.org> wrote: > On 2/17/10 8:18 AM, "Silvia Pfeiffer" <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Also, I don't know if you're intending to capitalize the role values, but >> I think we should keep them lowercase (as I've done above) to conform with >> other markup languages. Is there any reason to use uppercase? > > I used to have a scheme that included only three-character words and > capitalised, but you will see in the wiki > (http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/Media_TextAssociations) that the > current proposal stands at: "caption", "subtitle", "textaudesc", > "karaoke", "chapters", "tickertext", "lyrics" as values for role. > Feedback encouraged! > > GF: Just by way of information, there’s a list of roles defined in DFXP/TTM > at http://www.w3.org/TR/ttaf1-dfxp/#metadata-attribute-role . I’m not sure > about “textaudesc” as a role because it isn’t very clear. Despite its > length, how about using textaudiodesc instead? This is more descriptive and > also brings it into line with existing nomenclature, such as SMIL’s > systemAudioDesc. Very happy to harmonise those namings. Please go ahead and make those changes to the wiki page http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/Media_TextAssociations . We should all own it. :-) GF: Okay, will do. Cheers, Silvia.
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