Call for Review: TTML Text and Image Profiles for Internet Media Subtitles and Captions 1.0

Dear Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group,

(1) This is a Call for Review for a Working Draft
Transition for the following Recommendation Track specification:


(2) Document Title and URI:

* TTML Text and Image Profiles for Internet Media Subtitles and Captions
1.0
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-ttml-imsc1-20140930/



(3) Instructions for providing feedback

If you wish to make comments regarding this document, please send them
to public-tt@w3.org  with [imsc] at the start of your email's subject.
All comments are welcome.


(4) Review end date

The review period ends on 27 October 2014.


(5) Reference to the group's decision to make this Transition

Timed Text Working Group made the decision to
publish this Working Draft for wide review
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-tt/2014Sep/0136.html


(6) Evidence that the document satisfies group's requirements. Include a
link to requirements

No requirements were defined for this specification in the Timed Text
Working Group's charter at
http://www.w3.org/2014/03/timed-text-charter.html



(7) The names of groups with dependencies, explicitly inviting review
from them.

The following groups are known or suspected to have dependencies on this
specification:

- HTML Working Group
- Protocols and Formats Working Group
- HTML Accessibility Task Force
- CSS Working Group
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group


also the following groups have liaisons on one or more of these
specifications:
- Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group
- Web and TV Interest Group
- Web Media Text Tracks Community Group
- Internationalization (i18n) Working Group

The Timed Text Working Group requests review from each of these
working groups. The chairs of the working group listed have been copied
on the distribution list of this transition announcement as well as
other individuals known to have expressed prior interest.


(8) Report of any Formal Objections

The Working Group received no Formal Objection during the preparation of
this specification.


(9) Patent Disclosure Page Link can be found at
http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/34314/status


This document is governed by the 1 August 2014 W3C Process Document.


(10) Abstract

This document specifies two profiles of [TTML1]: a text-only profile and
an image-only profile. These profiles are intended to be used across
subtitle and caption delivery applications worldwide, thereby simplifying
interoperability, consistent rendering and conversion to other subtitling
and captioning formats. The text profile is a superset of [SDPUS].

The document defines extensions to [TTML1], as well as incorporates
extensions specified in [ST2052-1] and [EBU-TT-D].

Both profiles are based on [SUBM].


(11) Status of this document

This section describes the status of this document at the time of its
publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of
current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report
can be found in the W3C technical reports index at http://www.w3.org/TR/.


The Timed Text Working Group plans to recommend transition of this
document to Candidate Recommendation and is offering this Working Draft
for a public review period, which ends on 27 October 2014.
This document was published by the Timed Text Working Group as a Working
Draft. This document is intended to become a W3C Recommendation. If you
wish to make comments regarding this document, please send them to
public-tt@w3.org (subscribe, archives) with [imsc] at the start of your
email's subject. All comments are welcome.

Publication as a Working Draft does not imply endorsement by the W3C
Membership. This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or
obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this
document as other than work in progress.

This document was produced by a group operating under the 5 February 2004
W3C Patent Policy. W3C maintains a public list of any patent disclosures
made in connection with the deliverables of the group; that page also
includes instructions for disclosing a patent. An individual who has
actual knowledge of a patent which the individual believes contains
Essential Claim(s) must disclose the information in accordance with
section 6 of the W3C Patent Policy.

This document is governed by the 1 August 2014 W3C Process Document.



(12) Dependencies

The specification has the following normative references:
[CLDR]
 Unicode Consortium. The Common Locale Data Repository Project
[EBU-TT-D]
 European Broadcasting Union (EBU). Tech 3380, EBU-TT-D Subtitling
Distribution Format Version 1.0
[MHP]
 ETSI TS 101 812 V1.3.1, Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); Multimedia Home
[RFC2119]
 S. Bradner. Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels.
March 1997. Best Current Practice. URL: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt

[ST2052-1]
 SMPTE ST 2052-1, Timed Text Format (SMPTE-TT)
[TTML1]
 Glenn Adams, Ed., Timed Text Markup Language 1 (TTML1) (Second Edition),
W3C Recommendation, 24 September 2013. URL:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-ttml1-20130924/

[UNICODE]
 The Unicode Standard. URL: http://www.unicode.org/versions/latest/

[WCAG20]
 Ben Caldwell; Michael Cooper; Loretta Guarino Reid; Gregg Vanderheiden et
al. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. 11 December 2008. W3C
Recommendation. URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/

[xml-names]
 Tim Bray; Dave Hollander; Andrew Layman; Richard Tobin; Henry Thompson et
al. Namespaces in XML 1.0 (Third Edition). 8 December 2009. W3C
Recommendation. URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names






Regards,

Nigel Megitt, Chair of the Timed Text Working Group.
Thierry Michel, Team Contact for the Timed Text Working Group.

Received on Tuesday, 30 September 2014 16:35:06 UTC