On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Ralph Giles <giles@mozilla.com> wrote: > 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. > I think @label="easy reader" will sufficiently satisfy this use case. We don't need to make up any additional solutions. I've registered a bug to add a note to my CEA608/708 conversion spec for this: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=20353 Cheers, Silvia.
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