- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 06:56:55 +1100
- To: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>
- Cc: janina@rednote.net, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 5:03 AM, John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu> wrote: > Silvia Pfeiffer: >> >> I've just added some words to include the option of using speaker >> names with a colon in front of the speaker's lines as another means to >> signify speaker turn in captions. This was another topic discussed at >> Open Subtitles. > > > Wondering aloud if we should provide links to the following resources: > > Captioning Key: > Published by the Described and Captioned Media Program, the Captioning Key > provides information about how to present audio content in captions. The > Captioning Key specifies guidelines for the production of captions as well > as subtitles. > http://www.dcmp.org/captioningkey/ > > Suggested Styles and Conventions for Closed Captioning: > The Media Access Group at WGBH has a Captioning FAQ that provides some > conventions for how to caption, though it is geared more for closed > captioning for video and TV. > http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/mag/services/captioning/faq/sugg-styles-co > nv-faq.html > Can't hurt to have such information linked. These are more or less US-specific (or English-specific) though. But they certainly help to identify best practice. Silvia.
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