Thread Subject: Re: A modest proposal

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From: Larry Goldberg
Date: Wed, Sep 19 2007 12:25 PM

Greg,
Are you suggesting that all we would need to do is point to those provisions
and indicate that software used for playing multimedia must comply with
those regs?

... Larry ...


Greg Fields wrote:

> - Technical provision 3-D User Preferences adopts a paradigm of platform
> settings that are global to a platform, applied across multiple
> applications and are user-definable.
>
> - Provision 1.2-I already defines the requirements for text sizes
>
> The idea behind the proposed change to 4-A.3 is to leverage the paradigm
> of settings available to the platform, which includes the font size
> requirements already defined elsewhere.
>
> GregF
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of Larry
> Goldberg
> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 12:02 PM
> To: TEITAC Audio/Video Subcommittee
> Subject: Re: [teitac-video] A modest proposal
>
> That's pretty much the issue - who is the burden put on? User,uthor/
> producer,or manufacturer?
>
>
> - Larry
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Sep 19, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Karen Peltz Strauss
> < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
>> wrote:
>
>> How easy will it be for users to delve into the device itself to
>> change the
>> text size? Would there be a way to enable users to exercise control
>> over
>> this feature through the interface controlling the video application
>> itself?
>> The concern is that if a person has to leave the application that is
>> transmitting the video and go elsewhere into the inner workings of the
>> device, they may have a very difficult time trying to figure out how
>> to
>> re-size the font. This would be especially true if they are federal
>> employees who are not familiar with the general methods used for
>> displaying
>> and labeling text sizes on the media equipment - for example, the
>> situation
>> where a person is to watch a video for a government course and is
>> handed a
>> media device for this purpose.
>>
>> Karen
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Greg Fields" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
>> To: "TEITAC Audio/Video Subcommittee" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 11:15 AM
>> Subject: Re: [teitac-video] A modest proposal
>>
>>
>>> Larry - thank you for putting this together.
>>>
>>> Quick questions:
>>> 1) As per Andrew Kirkpatrick's feedback, are we confident that all
>>> devices in scope can support opacity levels?
>>>
>>> 2) Note that these types of devices in scope will have their own
>>> method
>>> for displaying and labeling the text sizes available on the device,
>>> and
>>> the size parameters would be measurable and most likely not defined
>>> as
>>> "smaller" or "larger". Should we perhaps alter the user-controllable
>>> text size wording slightly to reflect this device reality? The
>>> concept
>>> we may need to capture is that the user-defined text sizing options
>>> are
>>> by default limited to those size options available on a given
>>> device (or
>>> platform).
>>>
>>> Possible re-word (very open to wordsmith feedback):
>>>
>>> "adjustment of the text sizes available on the device to provide
>>> users
>>> with multiple text display options."
>

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