Re: Comments on w3ctag/eme/

Sergey,

Do you have any thoughts about Henriā€™s comments below on the Accessibility section of the draft at

  https://github.com/w3ctag/eme

? Please feel free to edit the text directly.

Jeni

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From: Henri Sivonen hsivonen@hsivonen.fi
Reply: Henri Sivonen hsivonen@hsivonen.fi
Date: 19 February 2014 at 05:55:11
To: www-tag www-tag@w3.org
Subject:  Comments on w3ctag/eme/

[snip]
> > DRM systems usually prohibit any manipulations with content  
> including
> > displaying third-party subtitles,
>  
> As far as I can tell, nothing in EME itself or in shipped
> implementations prevents compositing HTML/CSS content over  
> a video
> than uses EME-involved DRM. In fact, if you use Netflix with IE11  
> on
> Windows 8.1, you'll find that the service *relies* on being able  
> to
> composite HTML/CSS content over EME-involved video frames.  
>  
> > or (in case of e-books) reading a book using system voice-over  
> engine,
> > thus making a content less accessible by disabled people.
>  
> True, but how is this relevant to EME as long as browsers don't  
> provide client-side speech recognition or computer vision-based  
> description for DRMless videos?
[snip]

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Jeni Tennison
http://www.jenitennison.com/

Received on Saturday, 22 February 2014 13:34:17 UTC