- From: Christian Vogler <christian.vogler@gallaudet.edu>
- Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 07:53:27 -0500
- To: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Cc: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>, David Singer <singer@apple.com>, public-texttracks@w3.org
> My argument is that there are situations where scrolling captions are> needed and they are not necessarily rare or worse for everyone to> watch. It's a different presentation that some prefer and others> don't. Therefore we should have a standard means of doing them rather> than having to do awkward text copying to simulate the effect (and I should add: I have heard some complaints from deaf and hard of hearing viewers that certain CEA-708-capable TVs do not implement roll-up captions properly, causing the text to jump instead of scrolling smoothly. It's definitely an issue for people. Best regards Christian -- Christian Vogler, PhD Director, Technology Access Program Department of Communication Studies SLCC 1116 Gallaudet University http://tap.gallaudet.edu/ VP: 202-250-2795
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