- From: Chuck Hitchcock <chitchcock@cast.org>
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:40:56 -0500
- To: "'Charles McCathieNevile'" <charles@w3.org>, "'Slaydon, Eugenia'" <ESlaydon@beacontec.com>
- Cc: "'WAI GL'" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
I was pleased to see Charles emphasize the problems with reading and writing. Just put this in the context of school, many multimedia and video developers assume that captions will solve the problem of access for students who cannot hear an audio track. Since it is not unusual for a 7th grade learner who is deaf or hard of hearing to be reading at the 3rd grade level, keeping up with captions that have no pause controls can be a serious challenge. This is why digital video and SMIL is so important for this group and we still encourage developers to create captions. Chuck ................ Chuck Hitchcock, Chief Education Technology Officer, and Director, National Center on Accessing the General Curriculum, CAST, Inc., 39 Cross Street, Peabody, MA 01960 chitchcock@cast.org TTY +1 978-531-3110 Voice +1 978-531-8555 x233 Fax +1 978-531-0192 http://www.cast.org/ http://www.cast.org/ncac/ http://www.cast.org/bobby/ http://www.ulc.cast.org/
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