Re: does anyone currently fail colour contrast for text in timed media

  *   if they are open captions — then mandating contrast mandates that captions be of the kind that have a block of solid color behind the text, hiding the scene - since there is no way to really control the background otherwise.    This is not the preferred captioning for most people because it blocks the scene.

This isn’t exactly correct since open captions are burned into the video and an author could control the color of the captions so that if the first half of a video had video content that provided a light background the captions could be dark to achieve high contrast and for the second half if the background is dark the captions could be adjusted accordingly. Or the author might opt for a caption area background and consistent text color. The appearance of the captions can’t be changed once published by the author, but the author has a lot of control up to that point.

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On Feb 8, 2017, at 3:51 AM, Detlev Fischer <detlev.fischer@testkreis.de<mailto:detlev.fischer@testkreis.de>> wrote:

I can't see why poor contrast of captions should not fail SC 1.4.3. Why just advisory? Captions are clearly a form of text, and screenshots can provide clear evidence of failure.
In audits I frequently see white caption text on transparent grey background which means contrast is FAR below 4.5:1 whenever the video background happens to be bright.
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Jonathan Avila schrieb am 07.02.2017 18:14:


David, I have not failed videos with insufficient contrast.  However, that situation and open captions with poor contrast are something I would point out as advisory or best practice.



Jonathan



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Subject: Re: does anyone currently fail colour contrast for text in timed media




Thanks Glenda





Hey Gregg, I'll loop you in.





Yes, I agree audio description (or transcript) should reflect important visual information including text, but I'm thinking about 1.4.3 Colour contrast of text in movies ... In this case it's yellow text on the whiteboard in an animated movie.





Here's my take.





1.4.3 applies to "images of text" which have been "rendered in a non-text form *in order to achieve a particular effect* ..."





So the glossary is assigning an intention to the creation of the text. The author put it in an image because she wanted it in a special font, or a special position in relation to a background which might have been hard to do with CSS etc... This is not the case for a movie. Authors rarely make movies with the intention of achieving a particular text effect.





I haven't been watching movies looking for colour contrast failures of significant text. I was wondering if any others (Glenda, Jon, John, Gregg, etc.) would agree.


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On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 11:50 PM, Glenda Sims <glenda.sims@deque.com<mailto:glenda.sims@deque.com> <mailto:glenda.sims@deque.com> > wrote:


Hey David,





Looking at the glossary term for "image of text" leads me to believe that I'd need to watch the video to know for sure.  If the text on the blackboard is significant and there is not audio reference to it....then, I think I would fail it under 1.2.5 Audio Description (Prerecorded)


image of text


text that has been rendered in a non-text form (e.g., an image) in order to achieve a particular visual effect


Note: This does not include text <http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-WCAG20-20081211/#textdef>  that is part of a picture that contains significant other visual content.


Example: A person's name on a nametag in a photograph.


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On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 10:24 PM, Aparna Pasi <aparna.pasi@deque.com<mailto:aparna.pasi@deque.com> <mailto:aparna.pasi@deque.com> > wrote:


Hey David,


To be honest, I haven't failed video animation or captions as I haven't seen such a scenario.


I believe we should fail them as they are conveying information however, success criteria doesn't include anything about timed media.


Thanks,


Aparna





On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 4:30 AM, David MacDonald <david100@sympatico.ca<mailto:david100@sympatico.ca> <mailto:david100@sympatico.ca> > wrote:


For instance a video an animation of someone in front of a blackboard with text on it.





The definition appears to limit the SC to static images...





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