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Re: Styling of video captions

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Apr 13, 2018 11:10AM

In my opinion captions are either text or images of text and thus contrast minimums need to apply. In the US closed caption display requirements exist for physical devices under the CVAA and also apply when video programming owners display their video programming content over IP. It doesn't apply to all web based video players -- only to situations like where ABC, NBC, etc. would be delivering their own content. You might check out the settings in those online players like ABCs under caption > settings and see the options they provide for foreground, background, opacity, ec.

Jonathan

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