Thread Subject: Re: revision of 24(e)

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From: Baronas, Jean
Date: Wed, Jan 03 2007 1:50 PM

Suggest that the "service" be designated.
Thanks,
Jean Baronas

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of Dave Singer
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 11:59 AM
To: TEITAC Audio/Video Subcommittee
Subject: Re: [teitac-video] revision of 24(e)

Audio descriptions and captions must be either (a) permanently
presented to all recipients ("open") or (b) capable of being turned
on and off by each individual recipient ("closed").


At 12:02 -0500 3/01/07, Karen Peltz Strauss wrote:
>I think that the language is mixing apples and oranges: the system and
the
>content. The proposed language ("The system shall provide a method for
>turning closed captions or closed audio descriptions on and off unless
>captions or descriptions are
>permanently visible or audible to everyone.") suggests that systems do
not
>need to be capable of allowing users to turn on and off closed captions
and
>audio descriptions if the captions or descriptions are intended to be
>available to everyone. But the very definition of "closed" captions is
that
>they be capable of being turned on and off by the user. And to the
best of
>my knowledge, there is no term "closed audio descriptions."
>
>The bottom line is that viewers must always be able to turn on and off
>closed captions or audio descriptions that are not intended to be heard
by
>everyone. Qualifying this with the phrase "unless captions or
descriptions
>are permanently visable or audible to everyone" confuses the ability to
>adjust these features on an audio/video product with the decision of an
>author or producer to incorporate these access features permanently
into the
>content of the programming. The point here is that the producer or
>programmer that supplies those access features have nothing to do with
the
>system transmitting and displaying these features.
>
>Also, I am a little concerned about using the word "system" unless we
have
>defined that term. Should we use products instead? Finally, while the
>original 24(e) talks about the user being able to make the selection,
the
>above language does not, and leaves open the possibility that the
method for
>turning on and off captions will be controlled by an external source.
It
>is very important to keep this in the hands of the user.
>
>I propose the following, which is simple and gets to the point, even if
it
>is 2 sentences:
>
>The product shall provide a method for the user to turn closed captions
or
>audio descriptions on and off. This shall not be necessary in the
event
>that the captions or descriptions are permanently visible or audible to
>everyone.
>
>Karen
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Hoffman, Allen" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
>To: "TEITAC Audio/Video Subcommittee" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
>Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 11:33 AM
>Subject: Re: [teitac-video] revision of 24(e)
>
>
>>I like this one.
>>
>>
>>
>> Allen hoffman -- 202-447-0303
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of Whitney
>> Quesenbery
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 11:31 AM
>> To: TEITAC Audio/Video Subcommittee
>> Subject: Re: [teitac-video] revision of 24(e)
>>
>> How about active voice:
>>
>> The system shall provide a method for turning closed captions or
closed
>> audio descriptions on and off unless captions or descriptions are
>> permanently visible or audible to everyone.
>>
>> At 10:37 AM 1/3/2007, Andrew Kirkpatrick wrote:
>>>Or how about:
>>>A method for turning closed captions or closed audio descriptions on
>>>and off shall be provided unless captions or descriptions are meant
by
>>>the author to be permanently visible or audible to everyone.
>>>
>>>AWK
>>
>>
>> Whitney Quesenbery
>> Whitney Interactive Design
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