RE: Audio Collisions

	 AL> A combination of some redundancy (such as by transcripts
and
> captions, which shadow sound in text) in the data bundle offered
> by the source, together with user control over how the
> source-provided streams or components are presented, gives us the
> maximum adaptability for the minimum cost.
	[David Pawson]  I was thinking only on the browser / stylesheet
end.
	My starting point is the information availability at the page of
html. I
	have the source available (a graphic [ maybe an alt], a sound,
some text). What is needed is
	some preparatory work to assign these to 'my' preferred channel,
with 
	event association. Then go ahead and 'read'. If we can block the
browser from
	its asynchronous actions (playing the audio, showing the video
clip) then I 
	can have a single source sound / site / feel, fed serially to
me, the way I want it,
	rather than the way the author intended it (blazing saddles clip
with the sound of farting
	in the background!). I can't remember which of TVR's 3 modes we
are talking about,
	but it seems a good candidate for audio/tactile/visual
stylesheet commonality IMHO.

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> 	
> 
	 Al> Sometimes alternate presentation of portions of the
information
> will be prepared at the source, and sometimes they will be
> generated at the user.  
	[David Pawson]  
	If we can 'generate' alts [ e.g. here's some sound the author
forgot to describe] then even better, the channel source is switching
from data sink to source to assist the user need.

	Regards, DaveP

Received on Wednesday, 27 August 1997 10:08:00 UTC