- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:53:22 +1000
- To: free-aria@googlegroups.com
- Cc: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:15 AM, John Foliot<jfoliot@stanford.edu> wrote: > > (Silvia Pfeiffer) ginger wrote: >> >> I'm doing some work for Mozilla on finding the best way to include >> captions, subtitles, textual audio annotations, and other time-aligned >> text with the HTML5 video element. Right now, I have an experiment >> with external srt files that relate to an Ogg Theora video. >> >> You will find the details in my blog post. See the demo: >> http://www.annodex.net/~silvia/itext/ . >> >> Note that there is a frquentely called javascript callback that feeds >> the aria-live region with textual audio annotations that are then read >> by a screen reader if setup in that way. >> >> I would be keen to get feedback, suggestions for imporvement, or bug >> reports. I'm keen to take this forward as a discussion basis to the >> WHATWG for a standard in video a11y. > > This is exciting and interesting news - Right On! > > Silvia, I urge you to take that discussion to the HTML WG mailing list [1] > (as well as the W3C WAI-xtech list [2]) at the same time as you approach > the WHAT WG, as a large number of accessibility folk do not monitor WHAT > WG and it would be a shame to miss out on their feedback. I have taken > the liberty of forwarding this note to those lists today, but urge you to > include those communities in your ongoing quest as well. > > Cheers! > > [1 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/ ] > [2 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-xtech/ ] > Hi John, thanks for pointing out those working groups and their mailing lists. It is actually rather difficult to keep an accessibility discussion to a single mailing list, since there are so many diverse ones. I am finding it rather difficult to make sure everyone who should be across this is. So, this is encouragement to everyone to forward the discussions to those that I have overlooked. Thanks, Silvia.
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