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From: Terrill Thompson
Date: May 27, 2009 6:50PM

The keyboard shortcuts are documented here:
http://www.youtube.com/t/captions_about

This is quotable: "While you can choose a caption track in the sub-menu, you
can also control captions with various keyboard short-cuts." Its true you
can control the size (with + and -) and background (with B) of the caption
text, but as far as I can tell Jim there's no keyboard shortcut for toggling
the captions off/on. The caption icon doesn't receive tab focus in either
IE7 or IE8.

Re-reading my original post, I see that I didn't really express that as a
question, but there is one in there. I'm wondering: How did the folks at
YouTube attain such a large default font on their captioned video?

Thanks,
Terrill

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