- From: James Allan <allan_jm@tsb1.tsbvi.edu>
- Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 15:31:12 -0600
- To: WAU-ua <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
I asked Geoff to comment --Jim -----Original Message----- From: Geoff Freed [mailto:Geoff_Freed@wgbh.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 1999 12:14 PM To: allan_jm@tsb1.tsbvi.edu Subject: Re: FW: Draft for UA Techniques 7.3 SMIL Reply to: RE>FW: Draft for UA Techniques 7.3 SMIL hi, jim: here are a few comments: >Support accessibility features defined by W3C Recommendations for SMIL. >Accessible presentation means here that the information can be easily >accessed by using different media and that the user can easily control >whether to show the information or not. don't you mean "accessed by using different methods"? "different media" makes it sound like i can turn video into audio and vice versa. > - Support an interface for turning captions on and off. Captions are >defined either by using "system-overdub-or-caption" attribute with value >"caption" or "system-captions" attribute with value "on". If >"system-captions" attribute has value "off" then what? as i understand it, "system-captions=off" means that you can never turn on a caption track. but if an author has gone through the trouble of supplying a caption track, then why would he even USE "system-captions=off"? and if the author didn't create a caption track, what's the use of "system-captions=off"? i guess it sounds like something that can be tossed. perhaps i don't understand its use... >- When captions are shown support a caption region. According to user >preferences this could be embedded in the SMIL layout or shown in a >separate window. i definitely agree here. the G2 forces the author to define a text region in which to display the captions. but the guideline above is also confusing to me-- are you saying that the user should have control over where the captions are displayed? if so, i'd also lobby for having the authors always supply a default location in case the user doesn't care where the captions are displayed or doesn't know how to determine their location.
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