- From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
- Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 13:14:01 -0400
- To: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
At the regular Media Subteam teleconference on Wednesday 5 May, http://www.w3.org/2010/05/05-html-a11y-minutes.html And also at our regular HTML-A11Y Teleconference on Thursday 6 May: http://www.w3.org/2010/05/06-html-a11y-minutes.html I was requested to draft and circulate resolution language expressing our concern and desire to have WEBSRT removed from HTML 5 specification documents at this time. As Bug 9673, "Remove any reference to a specific Time Stamp format for video captioning from the specification at this time," has now been filed expressing this same conclusion, I have drafted our candidate resolution in support of this bug: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9673 This email provides this draft resolution and serves as our Call for Consensus on this question. Please vote on this resolution via WBS at: http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/44061/20100513_cfc-websrt/ Comments and objections may also be logged via WBS when you vote. Candidate Resolution <begin resolution> We are deeply concerned that specification language is being introduced regarding media support in HTML 5 documents http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/video.html#websrt without consensed HTML-A11Y Task Force input while we're in the midst of a series of focused deliberations to address exactly this issue. We also want to note the misunderstanding introduced into the record in the following posting to public-html (but not to public-html-a11y): http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Apr/1128.html where this approach was described as: "the Task Force's proposal;" though the referenced bug reports indicate that this was not yet a proposal of the Task Force. We believe input from all concerned WG members and Task Forces is critical to expeditious and responsive specifications development, and until we have that, we don't have consensus. It may be that we would adopt WEBSRT as our recommendation, or as a component in our recommendation. However, we have needed to go back to check requirements after it became evident that these were both incomplete, and incompletely vetted. Meanwhile, while we appreciate and solicit proposals, a publicly accessible specification incorporated directly into the draft HTML 5 specification documents gives the inaccurate impression that a consensus direction has been reached when this is not the case. Certainly, the WG is aware of our work in this area. We are endeavoring to cooperate with the desire to bring HTML 5 to Last Call this year. For unconsensed specifications to be published without our input only exacerbates our ability to contribute critical accessibility requirements and technology recommendations as team players in a timely and orderly manner. We respectfully request the HTML-WG Chairs' assistance in unrolling premature specification language in HTML5 document drafts. In particular we strongly urge the WEBSRT section NOT be present in the next heartbeat release of HTML 5. </end resolution draft> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@asterisk.rednote.net Chair, Open Accessibility janina@a11y.org Linux Foundation http://a11y.org Chair, Protocols & Formats Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/wai/pf World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
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