RE: ISSUE-309 (Image profile fails WCAG 1.2): Image profile needs to permit text equivalent [TTML IMSC 1.0]

Agreed… and my sincere apologies for diverting this thread.

However I do feel strongly about this issue and there is a point I feel compelled to make here.

Subtitle files always stand alone at some point in the life cycle between production and consumption, but I am unconvinced that this should be a strong differentiator or the (sole) justification for the inclusion of alternate text. (I don’t mean to imply that this is your view Nigel :-)

For me, the question is one of always trying to provide access… consider someone editing or qualifying the content… and for example consider if that person is blind (e.g. a blind employee involved in the QC of an image based subtitle file).
With alternate text that scenario is a possibility, and although clearly they may not necessarily be able to check the images, they would have the ability to check that the contents (if tagged with alternative text) appear to match any associated video.

This, for me, is the crux of accessibility provision… you always try and facilitate it, because it is difficult to envisage the impact it has and the necessity or desirability of it.

For me, the provision of an accessible equivalent (or description) of any visual content should not be an option or even a strong recommendation… it should be a mandate.

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John

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From: Nigel Megitt [mailto:nigel.megitt@bbc.co.uk]
Sent: 22 May 2014 10:24
To: Michael Dolan; 'Timed Text Working Group'
Subject: Re: ISSUE-309 (Image profile fails WCAG 1.2): Image profile needs to permit text equivalent [TTML IMSC 1.0]

Let's stick to the problem at hand – we're not working on CFF but on IMSC. If W3C is to make a recommendation that doesn't meet its own accessibility guidelines there has to be some explanation or context to describe how the impact on the user is mitigated. If there's work from CFF that you can bring in to back this up please do share it.

In terms of stand-along TTML documents, there's currently no hard requirement in IMSC that conformant documents are not standalone, so we have to cover the requirements when they are standalone.

However, Mike, you've clearly said you don't object to enabling text in the image profile. If there are no other objections then we can simply resolve to do that and close the issue with a decision to implement the change.

Nigel


On 21/05/2014 20:01, "Michael Dolan" <mdolan@newtbt.com<mailto:mdolan@newtbt.com>> wrote:

“Overlooked” and a “pity” in W3C perhaps, but not in CFF where it was studied and rejected as it created more problems than it solved.  Alternative full tracks/documents are a much cleaner solution in full media files (e.g. MP4).

Maybe W3C has different requirements for stand-alone TTML documents?

No objection to enabling it, but we could do with less judgment about other industry work.

                Mike

From: John Birch [mailto:John.Birch@screensystems.tv]
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 2:02 AM
To: Timed Text Working Group
Cc: Glenn Adams
Subject: RE: ISSUE-309 (Image profile fails WCAG 1.2): Image profile needs to permit text equivalent [TTML IMSC 1.0]

This is actually a very old ‘requirement’… (it’s a great pity it is consistently over-looked ☹

http://www.w3.org/2005/03/21/DFXPLastCallResponses.html - specifically Al Gilman’s comments
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-tt/2003May/0011.html

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-tt/2003May/0015.html


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From: Glenn Adams [mailto:glenn@skynav.com]
Sent: 21 May 2014 09:41
To: Timed Text Working Group
Subject: Re: ISSUE-309 (Image profile fails WCAG 1.2): Image profile needs to permit text equivalent [TTML IMSC 1.0]

I had previously reported this same comment on the CFF-TT image profile.

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Timed Text Working Group Issue Tracker <sysbot+tracker@w3.org<mailto:sysbot+tracker@w3.org>> wrote:
ISSUE-309 (Image profile fails WCAG 1.2): Image profile needs to permit text equivalent [TTML IMSC 1.0]

http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/TT/tracker/issues/309


Raised by: Nigel Megitt
On product: TTML IMSC 1.0

IMSC1 Image profile [1] defined in §6 does not permit a text equivalent. If this profile is used to provide captions as an alternative to audio then it will fail the WCAG2 guideline 1.2 [2]. From a practical perspective this would mean that users who can neither see nor hear well can not use tools to translate the content into e.g. Braille.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/ttml-imsc1/#image-profile-constraints

[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-WCAG20-20081211/#media-equiv


Some potential ways to solve this:
1. Permit text to be included within the image profile that describes the images.
2. Require or recommend that when image profile captions are provided there should be a text profile caption track available simultaneously.






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