Re: Support for advanced caption features (inc rollup)

On Dec 11, 2012, at 14:13 , Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:

> 
> 
> Ok so that leaves three use cases we don't support:
> 
> Allow software developers based in the US who believe they will be
> covered by the CFR 79.103 rules to support captions while only
> implementing WebVTT, by allowing caption text to be displayed within
> one or separate caption windows in a mode where text scrolls up as
> new text appears.
> 
> Allow software developers based in the US who believe they will be
> covered by the CFR 79.103 rules to support captions while only
> implementing WebVTT, by allowing character edge attributes to be
> displayed, including: no edge attribute, raised edges, depressed
> edges, uniform edges, and drop shadowed edges.
> 
> Allow software developers based in the US who believe they will be
> covered by the CFR 79.103 rules to support captions while only
> implementing WebVTT, by providing the ability for the user to select
> simplified or reduced captions when such captions are available and
> identify such a caption track as 'easy reader'.
> 
> Question: Why have the people who keep asking for the first on the basis 
> that it's legally required not even mentioned the other two?


I think the rest of the thread covered this question, but, just in case: we care about all three, but we think we have satisfactory solutions using existing markup (CSS, attributes, etc.).

David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.

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