Thread Subject: Re: Review of , and questions & concerns with 3Sept07 TEITAC draft
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From: Larry Goldberg
Date: Thu, Sep 06 2007 6:25 PM
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Andrew's rewrite sounds right to me.
- Larry
Andrew Kirkpatrick wrote:
>> 6-A - Synchronized Alternatives
>> -> this is a very broad provision that applies to practically
>> all media;
>> 6-B and 6-C limits the scope in which alternatives must be
>> synchronized.
>> I think this provision doesn't belong and should be removed;
>> certainly
>> it contradicts 6-B(1) and 6-C(1).
>
> I don't think that it necessarily contradicts b and c, I agree that
> removing it isn't harmful since we added "synchronized" to b and c.
>
>> 6-B - Captioning and Transcripts
>> -> (2) and (3) note that captions must be provided for things with
>> concurrent audio. But really, don't we mean for concurrent
>> spoken audio?
>> Perhaps a nit, as you only caption speech, but...
>
> Actually you caption more than speech. Subtitles are just speech, but
> captions also include non-spoken information. Generally it is true that
> captions are mostly of speech, but not entirely.
>
>> 6-C - Video Description
>> -> I think (3) is too broad. Think of the situation of a
>> recording of a
>> video slide presentation. If the (accessible) slides are provided
>> separately, and the speaker refers to each slide name/number
>> when moving
>> to a new slide, haven't we made this presentation accessible?
>> Do we need
>> to actually provide verbal descriptions of the slide text?
>
> I agree - how about:
>
> 2) materials containing prerecorded video with concurrent audio must
> provide synchronized video descriptions, or a separate text description
> of the video, to convey any informational content of the video that is
> not conveyed through other means.
> 3) materials containing live video must provide synchronized video
> descriptions in real time to convey any informational content of the
> video that is not conveyed through other means.
>
> AWK
>
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