Re: Support for advanced caption features (inc rollup)

On 12-12-11 2:32 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:

> Does just giving the tracks a title="" that says "Easy reader" satisfy 
> this? It doesn't seem to be in the spirit of the rules, but it does seem 
> to satisfy the letter... (These really are very poorly written and vague 
> requirements.)

One could likewise overload the language attribute for this.
lang=en-simple or lang=en-US-easy.

I gather CEA-708 has a bit in the data format which signals this and
that the text is referring to this bit. A more direct equivalent would
be to define a WebVTT file-level metadata element for it, but since the
user-agent will want to know from the track attributes using title or
lang seems sufficient to me.

Overriding language might make it easier to remember the preference if
simplified/easy reader is a setting one wants to retain under paragraph
(10) since that attribute is more likely to have a reliable value.

I suppose the user agent itself would only need to concern itself with
these issues in implementing the default controls, and the
'manufacturer' in the case of captions displayed by the webpage itself
would be instead the author of that page.

 -r

Received on Tuesday, 11 December 2012 22:50:05 UTC