RE: (techs) Test 145

> There are no 'non-associated' audio descriptions that I know of.

Let's make sure that we're not saying the same thing here.  When I say
non-associated audio description I mean that the audio description in
Katie's example appears to be offered as a separate audio file, which I
referred to as not being associated with the primary media.  It is, of
course, asociated in that it is presumably describing that media
content.

My objection is to having that be the only successful pass example for
this guideline.

AWK



> 
> They are synchronized with the video.  
> 
> We do have a total text version of AV as an option but the 
> video descriptions are text, not audio, and are much more extensive. 
> 
> 
> Gregg
>  -- ------------------------------
> Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. 
> 
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org
> > [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Kirkpatrick
> > Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 10:27 PM
> > To: Katie Haritos-Shea; w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
> > Cc: chris.ridpath@utoronto.ca
> > Subject: RE: (techs) Test 145
> > 
> > 
> > > Test 145 is in need of a passing example that incorporates a 
> > > transcript or audio file:
> > > 
> > > I suggest one that has both:
> > > 
> > > 145-7.html  Will pass the test. (Link to multimedia file
> > > (.mwv) with a text trancript and and audio file (mp3).)
> > > 
> > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 
> > > Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
> > > <html lang="en">
> > > <head>
> > > <title>OAC Testfile - Check #145 - Positive</title> 
> </head> <body> 
> > > <p>View <a href="movie.wmv"> the movie </a>. Read the <a 
> > > href="movie.txt">Transcript of the Movie</a> or get the <a 
> > > href="movie.mp3">Audio Description of the Movie</a>.
> > > </p>
> > > </body>
> > > </html>
> > 
> > Does this count?  There is a transcript, but I don't think 
> that WCAG 
> > should be advocating for non-asociated audio descriptions.
> > 
> > The problem is that you can't really tell without viewing 
> the video or 
> > (in the case of SMIL) parsing a meta file.  Comments on the existing
> > techniques:
> > 
> > 145-1.html Will fail the test. (Link to multimedia file
> > (.wav) without a text equivalent.)
> > 
> > <p>View <a href="movie.wmv">the movie</a>.</p>
> > 
> > In 145-1 the text says ".wav" but the movie is a .wmv.  I 
> assume that 
> > the .wmv is correct.  If so, I would say that this requires 
> > verification since there could be open captions or open audio 
> > descriptions (in wmv that the only kind of audio descriptions there 
> > is).  This is not an example of a "fail", just a "can't pass".
> > 
> > 145-3.html Will fail the test. (Link to multimedia file
> > (.mpg) without a text equivalent.)
> > 
> > Ditto for this one - not "fail", just "can't pass".
> > 
> > 145-4.html Will fail the test. (Link to multimedia file
> > (.mov) without a text equivalent.)
> > 
> > .mov can carry text and audio description information in the .mov 
> > file.
> > This example is also not an outright failure.
> > 
> > 145-5.html Will fail the test. (Link to multimedia file
> > (.ram) without a text equivalent.)
> > 
> > Ram files are often used - they are just simple metadata files for 
> > realplayer that point to other files for the player to 
> load.  They are 
> > useful when playing a smil file since it ensures that the 
> smil will be 
> > loaded by the realplayer, as the open command is delivered via the 
> > .ram directly to the real player.  So, the .ram can point 
> to a .smil 
> > which may have captions/descriptions (or it could point to an open 
> > captioned/described file).  As a result, this is not a good 
> example of 
> > a failure.
> > 
> > 145-6.html Will fail the test. (Link to multimedia file
> > (.aif) without a text equivalent.)
> > 
> > Sure, this fails.
> > 
> > I assume that the list of "multimedia" file extensions is 
> not final - 
> > "Multimedia file extensions are .wmv, .mpg, .mov, .ram, and 
> .aif.".  
> > I'd add asf, swf, avi, rm, dv, flv, divx, 3gp, mp4, and 
> others.  I'd 
> > probably remove .ram since it is just a metafile (if not then you 
> > should add wmx and asx since they are equivalent for windows media).
> > 
> > AWK
> > 
> > 
> 
>

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