- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 13:53:44 +0300
- To: Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Dave Singer" <singer@apple.com>, "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>, "W3C WAI-XTECH" <wai-xtech@w3.org>, "W3C Style List" <www-style@w3.org>
On Sep 4, 2008, at 13:15, Ben Boyle wrote: > Captions on is pretty good for "can't hear well" in my opinion. Two > scenarios I'm familiar: > 1. sometimes it's not practical or appropriate to have audio in the > work environment... captions would be useful. Browsers should probably turn captions on when system audio output is muted. > 2. there's nothing better than captions when trying to watch something > and the kids are underfoot making a ruckus (or alternatively, they're > being nice and quiet and you don't want to risk disturbing the peace!) This is not something that can be modeled as a "set and forget" pref. This would have to be a context menu option. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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