Re: Introducing myself

I was the co-Chair of the U.S.A. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Video Programming Accessibility Advisory Committee Working Group 1 which
submitted recommendations to the FCC for IP Protocol captioning regulations
in response to the U.S.A. 21st Century Communications and Video
Accessibility Act. This Act mandates that programming that is shown with
captions on TV must also be shown with captions via the web.

A large part of the discussion in Working Group 1 was focused on captioning
standards (including WebVTT). Ultimately the VPAAC made recommendations
based on three use-cases. The U.S.A. FCC recently released proposed rules a
few weeks ago, based on the VPAAC report, which we are currently commenting
on.

I also continue to serve as the consumer representative in VPAAC Working
Group 4 which is focused on the behavior and location of the closed caption
button on web browsers, among other specifications.

When I am not advocating for captions, I am the Chief Operating Officer of
the U.S.A. National Association of the Deaf (NAD) where I direct all aspects
of its operations.


On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Eric Carlson <eric.carlson@apple.com>wrote:

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> On Oct 24, 2011, at 4:38 PM, David Singer wrote:
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> [please respond to this thread, and introduce yourselves to the group]
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>   I work on WebKit and Safari for Apple, where I spend most of my time on
> the <video> and <audio> elements. I am currently helping to implement
> <track> and WebVTT.
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>   Before WebKit I worked on QuickTime for many years where I was
> responsible for the various QuickTime browser plug-ins, so I have been
> around web audio and video since the bad old days (LiveConnect, XPConnect,
> ActiveX, and XPConnect scripting interfaces in the same code base? ugh!) and
> I am *really* happy to be working on  <video> and <audio>!
>
> eric
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