- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 09:30:24 -0600
- To: Madeleine Rothberg <madeleine_rothberg@wgbh.org>
- Cc: "W3C-WAI-UA" <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
Madeleine, I think that we allow the guidelines to be forward thinking this way. Thanks, Jon At 10:22 AM 3/6/00 -0500, Madeleine Rothberg wrote: >Jon, >Yes, I do think that future mark up should allow the use of collated >text transcripts. If you and Ian feel comfortable having a checkpoint >and applying the applicability clause, that's fine with me. > >-Madeleine > >On Monday, March 6, 2000, Jon Gunderson <jongund@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> wrote: >Madeleine, >I talked to Ian about this issue. While there is currently not any markup >that allows authors to indicate explicitly collated text. It may appear in >a future recommendation of SMIL or some other technology and until that >time the reference to collated text in the checkpoint will not mean very >much (see applicability clauses of a checkpoint). But to make the document >forward looking, collated text was included. > >Do you think that there should be mark up in the future to indicate >collated text transcriptions? > >Do you think that with our current applicability clause it is alright to >include it now? > >Thanks, >Jon > > > >At 05:18 PM 3/2/00 -0500, Madeleine Rothberg wrote: >>I apologize for missing today's meeting. I was on a conflicting >>conference call. I wanted to comment on issue CR#204. Here are >>the minutes from today's call followed by MR: and then my comments. >> >>9) CR#204: >> http://cmos-eng.rehab.uiuc.edu/ua-issues/issues-linear.html#204 >> Add collated text to Checkpoint 2.6 and 4.8 or create a new >> checkpoint at lower priority >> >> Proposed Resolution: >> >> 1.Add collated text to checkpoints >> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2000JanMar/0343.html >> >> MK: If it's not synchronized, no problem. >> IJ: Is this more burdensome than a caption? >> MK: Same as caption. >> >> Resolved: Adopt Eric's proposal. >> Action IJ: Review Eric's proposal by Friday. >> >>MR: a text transcript would be the same content as the captions, but >>without synchronization. A collated text transcript includes both the >>captions (of the audio information) and the text of the description >>(of the visual information). I thought we had resolved not to include a >>requirement on UAs for either kind of transcript because the current W3C >>spec for SMIL does not support the identification of those elements. >>See minutes from 22 December 1999 at: >>http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/1999OctDec/0741.html >> >>Authors can and should provide transcripts anyway, however the UA >>doesn't yet have a means to work with them programmatically. >> >>-Madeleine >> >>-- >>Madeleine Rothberg >>The CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media >>madeleine_rothberg@wgbh.org >>http://www.wgbh.org/ncam > >Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP >Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology >Chair, W3C WAI User Agent Working Group >Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services >College of Applied Life Studies >University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign >1207 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820 > >Voice: (217) 244-5870 >Fax: (217) 333-0248 > >E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu > >WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund >WWW: http://www.w3.org/wai/ua > > Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Chair, W3C WAI User Agent Working Group Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services College of Applied Life Studies University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: (217) 244-5870 Fax: (217) 333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund WWW: http://www.w3.org/wai/ua
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