- From: Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:39:38 -0800
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>From an interested party.
Rollup Captions
To properly represent 608/708 closed captions, it is important that DFXP TimedText provide some basic support for roll-up style captions. [company] has yet to formalize plans in this area, but is proposing the following basic structure:
* Allow for a <body>, <div>, or individual <p> element to be tagged as rollup, with an attribute indicating the number of lines of rollup text (typically 2 or 3 lines).
* Leverage the proposed upperThird/middleThird/lowerThird region tag to allow for the rollup caption area to be positioned appropriately on the screen. Software that converts 608/708 captions to TimedText can inspect the line positioning and infer the appropriate screen region.
* Interpret empty <p> tags as a command to clear the roll-up display. Software that converts 608/708 captions to TimedText would generate an empty <p> tag whenver encountering {EDM} erase commands.
Thanks,
AWK
Andrew Kirkpatrick
Senior Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe Systems
akirkpat@adobe.com<mailto:akirkpatrick@adobe.com>
Received on Friday, 12 December 2008 15:41:02 UTC