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Bug 10839 - Providing visible indication that descriptions and captions are available.
Summary: Providing visible indication that descriptions and captions are available.
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: John Foliot
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Keywords: a11y, a11ytf, media
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Reported: 2010-09-30 00:17 UTC by John Foliot
Modified: 2011-01-11 03:29 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

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Description John Foliot 2010-09-30 00:17:39 UTC 
It is imperative that the user interface indicate if and when captions and/or subtitles are available. For more details please see http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/index.php?title=Media_Accessibility_Checklist#dac (a current work effort of the media sub-team of the Accessibility Task Force)
Comment 1 Philip Jägenstedt 2010-09-30 13:17:41 UTC 
Surely this is something that should be left up to the UA? Not providing any visual indication would make the whole feature useless, so I doubt anyone will do that.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-09-30 18:40:45 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: no spec change
Rationale: The spec already does this as much as it can:

"This user interface should include features to [...] change the volume, change the display of closed captions or embedded sign-language tracks, select different audio tracks or turn on audio descriptions [...]"
Comment 3 Martin Kliehm 2010-10-19 15:23:41 UTC 
The bug triage sub-team agrees with the editor, however since this is important adding the a11yTF keyword; John should follow-up and confirm if the spec text is agreeable.
Comment 4 Martin Kliehm 2010-12-21 15:15:53 UTC 
Assigning to John for review