Re: [whatwg] accessibility management for timed media elements, proposal

2007-06-11 Thread Gervase Markham
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: I honestly don't think the property values are well-named. either is confusing and vague; dont-want is a misspelled colloquialism. How about one of the following possibilities: captions: wanted captions: unwanted captions: no-preference What happened to yes, no,

Re: [whatwg] accessibility management for timed media elements, proposal

2007-06-11 Thread Dave Singer
At 0:02 -0400 10/06/07, Brian Campbell wrote: On Jun 9, 2007, at 5:26 PM, Dave Singer wrote: I have to confess I saw the BBC story about sign-language soon after sending this round internally. But I need to do some study on the naming of sign languages and whether they have ISO codes. Is

Re: [whatwg] accessibility management for timed media elements, proposal

2007-06-10 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Dave Singer wrote: At 16:35 +0100 9/06/07, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: [snip] The proposal does not describe how conflicts such as the following would be resolved: User specifies: captions: want high-contrast-video: want Author codes: video ... source media=all and (captions:

Re: [whatwg] accessibility management for timed media elements, proposal

2007-06-10 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
I wrote: The crudest way of doing this would be to provide transcriptions of audio descriptions to supplement the captions. I believe one can do that with SMIL; I don't know what the situation with other container formats or player UIs is however. I just ran across the Open and Closed

Re: [whatwg] accessibility management for timed media elements, proposal

2007-06-09 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Dave Singer wrote: we promised to get back to the whatwg with a proposal for a way to handle accessibility for timed media, and here it is. sorry it took a while... Three cheers for Apple for trying to tackle some of the accessibility issues around video content! :) Without trying to assess

Re: [whatwg] accessibility management for timed media elements, proposal

2007-06-09 Thread Dave Singer
At 16:35 +0100 9/06/07, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: Dave Singer wrote: we promised to get back to the whatwg with a proposal for a way to handle accessibility for timed media, and here it is. sorry it took a while... Three cheers for Apple for trying to tackle some of the accessibility

Re: [whatwg] accessibility management for timed media elements, proposal

2007-06-09 Thread Brian Campbell
On Jun 9, 2007, at 5:26 PM, Dave Singer wrote: I have to confess I saw the BBC story about sign-language soon after sending this round internally. But I need to do some study on the naming of sign languages and whether they have ISO codes. Is it true that if I say that the human language