- From: Alastair Campbell <alastc@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 17:31:44 +0100
- To: public-restrictedmedia@w3.org
Hi, I have a question that I couldn't work out from the EME spec, hopefully this is the right place to ask: Will content providers be able to include captions and audio description with encrypted media? A requirement for that would be that browsers are able to provide a mechanism for showing captions, and switching audio to include an audio description. Being able to add captions / audio desc are a basic requirement for accessibility [1], and I believe that companies such as Netflix will be including captions with their content [2]. I assume that would require the time code of the video to be available to the browser, is that the case for encrypted media? Perhaps the technical way of asking is: Does EME restrict the information available through HTML5 embedded media? [3] Apologies, that might be a big question, at this stage I'm most interested in whether EME would restrict access in a way that impacts accessibility by principle. Kind regards, -Alastair 1] http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/#media-equiv 2] http://gigaom.com/2012/10/11/netflix-captions-lawsuit-settlement/ 3] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/embedded-content-0.html#media-element
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