> Larry Goldberg <mailto:larryg@verizonmedia.com> > Friday 16 July 2021 03:27 > I'll add one basic (and obvious) fact: > Most captions are transmitted in the form of data which represent the > characters and which include metadata that gives instructions to local > hardware as to how to render the data as displayed text. > As the characters themselves are rendered locally, bandwidth issues > are not relevant to resolution of the text itself. For TV and > streaming, the actual fonts, characters, resolution etc. are entirely > dependent on the local character generator built into the hardware, > unless the text itself is sent as bitmapped video. Thanks Larry - that is a sensible point. I guess we are looking for any potential gotchas that may relate to the WebXR Layers API. Can you expand on contexts where text may be sent as bitmapped video? That sounds resolution dependent. Thanks Josh -- Emerging Web Technology Specialist/Accessibility (WAI/W3C)
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