RE: Captions for audio clips

Are we in agreement that we discussing only audio that meaningful content? 
 I am thinking of a typical RealAudio archive of a radio broadcast.

P1 is met by providing a transcript.

With the very reasonable points made about residual hearing, English as a 
foreign language, learning disabilities, etc., P2 (significant barriers) 
seem fair to me for these groups.

With the points raised (additional audiences served by live captioning), I 
would now argue that for multimedia (video w/ voice) that P1 *requires* 
captions (and that mere transcripts are not good enough).  The Deaf are so 
comfortable now with synchronized television (and movie) captioning that 
IMHO a separate transcript is not much of an accommodation.

Does SMIL support captions for ReadAudio broadcasts?
Does anyone have examples of synchronized captions for audio-only content?

-- Bruce Bailey


On Friday, December 10, 1999 4:05 PM, pjenkins@us.ibm.com 
[SMTP:pjenkins@us.ibm.com] wrote:
> I would argue that even priority 2 is too high.  If the listener has some
> residual hearing, then the visual synchronized captions are only aiding 
or
> making it easier to get the information.    The definition of Priority 3 
is
> :
> "A Web content developer may address this checkpoint. Otherwise, one or
> more groups will find it somewhat difficult to access information in the
> document. Satisfying this checkpoint will improve access to Web 
documents.
> "
> I do not feel that adding visual captions to audio clips is removing
> "significant barriers" [see P2 definition].  I am also assuming that 
volume
> control and play back controls on the user agent will provide the access 
to
> the audio information that the user with residual hearing may need.
> Remember,  as the residual hearing approaches zero, the benefit of visual
> synchronized captions approaches zero, but never gets there because
> synchronized timed presentation of the text captions gives indication to
> rhythm or timing of the text - but, which is something that can be
> approached  - with good punctuation, hence requiring only a P3.
>
> Regards,
> Phill Jenkins
>

Received on Tuesday, 14 December 1999 18:48:23 UTC