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Bug 16005 - Media elements: I would suggest that Subtitle support be implemented for Audio Media elements for the hearing impaired users. It should also include an api that would allow custom presentation of the subtitles.
Summary: Media elements: I would suggest that Subtitle support be implemented for Audi...
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: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
Whiteboard:
Keywords: a11y, media
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2012-02-16 19:52 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-09-25 03:31 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-02-16 19:52:28 UTC 
Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
Media elements:

I would suggest that Subtitle support be implemented for Audio Media elements
for the hearing impaired users.

It should also include an api that would allow custom presentation of the
subtitles.

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User agent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.0; U; Edition Next; en) Presto/2.10.255 Version/12.00
Comment 1 Silvia Pfeiffer 2012-02-16 21:18:37 UTC 
You can already use the track element for audio elements, but you'd have to put the audio file in a <video> element to get a visual display. Otherwise the Web developer has to create the visual display through JavaScript.

BTW: Transcripts are often more useful than captions for audio files, since they don't require the hearing-impaired person to go along the pace of the audio file but can determine their own pace of reading.
Comment 2 contributor 2012-07-18 07:16:32 UTC 
This bug was cloned to create bug 17914 as part of operation convergence.
Comment 3 Silvia Pfeiffer 2012-09-25 03:30:28 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
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   Status: Rejected
   Rationale: Works for me, see comment2
Comment 4 Silvia Pfeiffer 2012-09-25 03:31:32 UTC 
Of course that was meant to be comment1