Re: Accessibility and EME (was RE: Is EME usable regardless of the software/hardware I use ?) from Duncan Bayne on 2013-06-13 (public-restrictedmedia@w3.org from June 2013)

From: Duncan Bayne <dhgbayne@fastmail.fm>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 21:51:09 -0700
To: Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com>
Cc: public-restrictedmedia@w3.org
Message-Id: <1371099069.28741.140661243326521.57A564DB@webmail.messagingengine.com>

> Actually, we're not aware of any requirements from content providers
> for DRM protection of subtitles/captions. All our subtitles/captions
> are delivered in the clear today.

Yeah - it's not so much subtitles or captions, but entire text streams. 
If a content owner chose to 'protect', say, a written article with a
CDM, then the accessibility stream wouldn't be a subtitle or caption,
it'd be the entire document in cleartext.

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