Thread Subject: Re: revision of 24(e)

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From: Jim House (TDI)
Date: Wed, Jan 03 2007 3:30 PM

ORIGINAL: Display or presentation of alternate text presentation or audio descriptions shall be user-selectable unless permanent

REVISED: The user shall have the ability to instantly turn on alternate caption display and/or audio description unless configured by author to be permanently "on".

RATIONALE: The user will see one of two things.

1. A closed captioned content with a label (text or graphic) prominently displayed where the user will turn on the captions.
2. Or an open captioned content where the user does not have to do anything except enjoy the content.

Adding a couple more points here...

A. "Off" is really a moot point because when you finish the video, you would close the window (which I think does away with someone's concern about "burn-in" from leaving any logo on the monitor too long).

B. Some applications like Quick Time or Windows Media allow the user to preselect captioning as a default setting if available so because it is preselected, the user will not have to take further action if the set-up is configured right.

Jim House
TDI



Baronas, Jean wrote:
> How's this:
>
> Original: Display or presentation of alternate text presentation or
> audio
>
>> descriptions shall be user-selectable unless permanent
>>
>
> Revision: The user shall have the option to turn on and off text
> presentation or audio descriptions.
>
> Jean Baronas
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
> [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of Larry
> Goldberg
> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 2:00 PM
> To: TEITAC AV list
> Subject: Re: [teitac-video] revision of 24(e)
>
> I fear that this new verbiage introduces too many new terms and words
> that
> people aren't used to and won't understand; i.e. " Equivalents," "
> audible
> or visible (respectively) by default," " unless a mechanism ... exists."
>
> Also, I feel we need to address Dave's point about equal level of
> end-user
> requirements to gain access. It's very easy to imagine an implementation
> of
> closed captioning that seems facile (and even cool!) to the developer
> but
> which requires a specific browser of a specific version, with a specific
> plug-in or set of plug-ins.
>
> Maybe we should just require that all video be open-captioned and
> open-described...
>
> [just kidding] [sort of]
>
> - Larry
>
>
> Andrew Kirkpatrick wrote:
>
>
>> Here's another way to skin this:
>>
>> Original:Display or presentation of alternate text presentation or
>>
> audio
>
>> descriptions shall be user-selectable unless permanent
>>
>> Proposed: Equivalents for video and audio shall be audible or visible
>> (respectively) by default, unless a mechanism to enable the display
>> exists.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
>> [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of Dave Singer
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 3:59 PM
>> To: TEITAC Audio/Video Subcommittee
>> Subject: Re: [teitac-video] revision of 24(e)
>>
>> The problem with removing "permanent" and saying something like
>> "available to everyone" is that the definition of "available" is very
>> vague ('oh yes, it's available, you just need to pay for this premium
>> service, buy this tool, and then ...').
>>
>> The intent is that the entire caption stream or audio stream be
>> presented without user intervention.
>>
>> The other comment I made was that this should say something about the
>> end-user requirements to be able to turn captions on and off should
>>
> not
>
>> be materially different or more onerous than to recieve the basic
>> program material ('you don't need a special television').
>> --
>> David Singer
>> Apple Computer/QuickTime
>>

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