- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 08:34:22 +1100
- To: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>
- Cc: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <AANLkTi=C1kXbPYy+9B7WEae9tjUwKjz4fkPtzSS7mmv-@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 6:43 AM, John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu> wrote: > Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > > > > We need to be aware that we had a very single-sided sample > > of users at the NYC event: a US user representative, > > hard-of-hearing, and of rather advanced age. Other countries > > have different representations for the text with placement > > offsets - in particular the Australian Captioning Centre, > > that I used to have a project with, had the requirement from > >users that the placement underneath the speaker really helped > > and I know from Germany that colors were used frequently there. > > Also, younger people may have different preferences. The > > preference may have as much to do with what you are used to as > > it has with what is really more usable. It might be worth asking > > this particular question about preferences of other > > hard-of-hearing or deaf people to get a better sample of input. > > So JF is running stupid this week, but just a quick thought here re: > Germany's use of color. While I think the case could be made (has been > made?) that we need to support some form of styling in our synched text > files (CSS?) I caution that WCAG is quite specific that the use of color > alone to convey important information is problematic. Thus while we should > encourage the ability of styling, this statement made me cringe ever so > slightly. > I'm not saying that we should mandate any of the three approaches to identify speakers - I'm just saying that we should mention all three that have been used in the past and make sure that all three are possible to be done in HTML5. I was speaking up about removing the existing two approaches (color and position) in favor of something we hadn't mentioned before (label). Cheers, Silvia.
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