- From: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>
- Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 10:00:49 -0700 (PDT)
- To: "'Geoff Freed'" <geoff_freed@wgbh.org>, "'Silvia Pfeiffer'" <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>, "'Masatomo Kobayashi'" <MSTM@jp.ibm.com>
- Cc: "'Hironobu Takagi'" <TAKAGIH@jp.ibm.com>, <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Geoff Freed wrote: >> "Silvia Pfeiffer" wrote: >> >> Thinking about it in more depth, we may even want to use such an >> attribute on captions and subtitles. It would indicate what will >> happen if caption elements overlap into the next caption text cue, ie. >> just display both (which would be the default) or clip the cue. >> Pausing the video probably doesn't make sense for caption text. >> >> I like this attribute. > > GF: I agree that this would be useful. I’m not sure if I’m misinterpreting > your comment about captions, but I do think that having the ability to > pause video/audio tracks to allow for supplemental captions would be a > good idea. As there are cases for using extended audio descriptions to > deliver extra information, there are cases for extended captions to do > the same: for example, a user could elect to view an extended caption > track so that during a complex (pre-recorded) chemistry lecture, the > video and audio pause in order to accommodate explanatory text. +1 with Geoff & Silvia here. It struck me that this type of attribute is indeed useful, and quite likely easy for the browsers to implement. JF
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