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Bug 13961 - I'm concerned there doesn't seem to be an elegant simple way to provide closed captions for the <video> tag. YouTube does this quite well(albiet in another technology), just upload the SMIL or whatever captioning text file and link it to the video. I thi
Summary: I'm concerned there doesn't seem to be an elegant simple way to provide close...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: contributor
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-08-29 20:46 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-12-09 23:32 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2011-08-29 20:46:55 UTC 
Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
I'm concerned there doesn't seem to be an elegant simple way to provide closed
captions for the <video> tag. 

YouTube does this quite well(albiet in another technology), just upload the
SMIL or whatever captioning text file and link it to the video.

I think there needs to be a simle way to do this in HTML5 something like this:


<video src="ex-b.mov" captions="ex-b_captions.txt"></video>

The captions file would have the timing in a standard format.

I'm on the WCAG 2 committee and we made our requirement for captioning 1.2.2
with the idea that Cpation technology was going to become simple to
implement... right now it's too hard in HTML 5

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Comment 1 Silvia Pfeiffer 2011-08-29 23:07:32 UTC 
Whoever posted this: can you explain why the <track> element is not sufficient in your view?
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-12-09 23:32:26 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: This seems to have been fixed already, with <track> and WebVTT.