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Bug 8658 - Availability of captions or additional audio tracks
Summary: Availability of captions or additional audio tracks
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
Whiteboard:
Keywords: a11y, media
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2010-01-06 11:00 UTC by Gez Lemon
Modified: 2011-03-08 12:15 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description Gez Lemon 2010-01-06 11:00:11 UTC 
Suggest adding the availability of captions or additional audio tracks to the items listed in a UA provided user interface. "... (e.g. <ins>show captions, turn on audio descriptions, </ins>full-screen video or in an ...)"
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-01-07 06:46:41 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:
   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments.
Comment 2 contributor 2010-01-07 06:57:08 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r4532.
Check-in comment: Mention captions and audio descriptions in the list of things the native UI should include.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4531&to=4532
Comment 3 Michael Cooper 2010-02-04 16:38:38 UTC 
HTML Accessibility Task force has decided not to track this.
Comment 4 Martin Kliehm 2011-03-08 12:15:00 UTC 
Confirming the change made it into the W3C spec.