Re: [Bug 8659] New: Media events to indicate captions and audio descriptions

Is this really the right way to solve this problem?  Could people come up with some holistic arguments showing how accessibility works if these events exist?


On Jan 6, 2010, at 3:02 , bugzilla@wiggum.w3.org wrote:

> http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=8659
> 
>           Summary: Media events to indicate captions and audio descriptions
>           Product: HTML WG
>           Version: unspecified
>          Platform: PC
>               URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/video.html#mediaevents
>        OS/Version: Windows NT
>            Status: NEW
>          Keywords: a11y
>          Severity: normal
>          Priority: P2
>         Component: HTML5 spec bugs
>        AssignedTo: dave.null@w3.org
>        ReportedBy: gez.lemon@gmail.com
>         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
>                CC: ian@hixie.ch, mike@w3.org, public-html@w3.org, public-
>                    html-a11y@w3.org
> 
> 
> Propose adding additional media events to indicate whether captions and audio
> descriptions are present, turned on, etc.
> 
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David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Wednesday, 6 January 2010 18:36:36 UTC