Re: [Proposal] Checkpoint 4.5: Clarification that direct access rapid access requirement

we talk about time here but are there not other markers other than time
such as <bookmark> or other cues such as track separation?  I am not
certain that we are interested in having a limit on jumps in sequencial
motion.  It seems that the check point can make it on its own with a
clarifying note or techniques.  The idea is to have means of time
independant interaction that will provide the widest accessibility.
Some will need to be able to go to a particular point or pick from among
points to which to go such as titles or scenes etc.  Some will need to
use sequential motion such as what is commonly referred to as fast
forward and rewind in order to scan the media content in order to find
their place.  In the latter instance, one fixed fast rate in any
direction should be enough.  I think there may be something in the daisy
speck on this.

I would uphold not requiring that the content be presented at the faster
rate because merely
returning to normal activity for a brief period can provide sufficient
information on which to base a decision whether or not to continue the
motion.  Even in digital motion, there can be a rewind feature similar
to a cassette.  The idea of any sort of incramental other than content
jump, produces the need to back or forward track from a point to a point
which was missed more so than a non jumping motion such as that employed
in cassettes.  In the digital world, sequential is the same as in the
cassette world except you don't have feet and inches in addition to
time.  you do however have other features that could be made available.
I am thinking of a cd in which I press a button that begins scanning
within a track and auditorily, it sounds like I am running a cassette at
fast forward or rewind but the pitch is lowered and I can hear the sound
although garbled.  I would like this feature even if it were silent.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian B. Jacobs" <ij@w3.org>
To: <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 6:13 PM
Subject: [Proposal] Checkpoint 4.5: Clarification that direct access
rapid access requirement


Hello,

Provision one of checkpoint 4.5 in the 31 July draft [1] reads:

<BLOCKQUOTE>
 1. Allow the user to stop, pause, resume, fast advance, and fast
 reverse rendered audio and animations (including video and
 animated images) that last three or more seconds at their
 default playback rate.
</BLOCKQUOTE>

At today's teleconf [2], we discussed whether "fast advance" and
"fast reverse" implied that to get from time 1 to time 2 in a
presentation, the advance/reverse functionality had to scan every
intervening point (like a physical cassette tape).

Please consider the following proposal.

 _ Ian

[1] http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/WD-UAAG10-20010731/
[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2001JulSep/0220

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Proposal
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 1) Rapid access to (time) moments in audio and animation
    content is the essential navigation requirement.

 2) Serial access (e.g., "Go from where I currently
   am back as long as I hold the reverse button down, in
   increments of ten seconds.") is a sufficient approach
   to satisfying this requirement. Provisions 3. and 4.
   are only relevant to serial access mode.

 3) Direct access (e.g., "Go directly to the 5-minute mark")
    is a sufficient approach to satisfying this requirement.

 4) The user agent SHOULD provide a combination of both
   of these functionalities for rapid access.

 5) The checkpoint should say nothing about the granularity
    of serial or direct access.

The following proposal clarifies provisions 1, 3, and 4
accordingly. Provisions 2 and 5 remain unchanged.

<NEW>
  1. Allow the user to stop, pause, and resume audio and
  animations (including video and animated images) that last
  three or more seconds at their default playback rate.

  X. Allow the user to navigate efficiently (forward and
  backward) within the same audio and animation content. The user
  agent may satisfy this requirement through sequential or direct
  access techniques. Sequential access techniques include, for
  example, rewind in various time increments, forward to the next
  audio track, etc. Direct access techniques include access to
  video track number 7, to the 10-minute mark, etc.

  Y. When serial techniques are used to satisfy the previous
  requirement, the user agent is not required to play back
  content during advance or rewind (though doing so may help
  orient the user). For example, the user agent is not required
  to play an animation at double speed during a continuous fast
  forward.  Similarly, the user agent is not required to play
  back synchronized content during advance or rewind (e.g., an
  audio track synchronized with a video track).

  Note: The user agent should allow efficient navigation of audio
  and animation content through a combination of serial and
  direct access techniques, such as direct access to a chosen
  audio track, then serial access within that track (e.g., slow
  forward at first, then faster as the user continues to press a
  button).
</NEW>

Comments:

 1) "Navigate efficiently" is an expression used in provision 1 of
    checkpoint 9.9:

      "Allow the user to navigate efficiently to and among
       important structural elements in rendered content."

 2) Previous versions of this checkpoint did not specify
    a granularity for fast advance/reverse (e.g., whether
    increments should be less than one second for precision
    video playback, one second, 5 seconds, etc.). This version
    of the checkpoint imposes no minimal granularity requirement.

 3) Neither the old nor the new version of the checkpoint
    requires playback of content during fast forward or rewind.


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