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Bug 17914 - 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: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-07-18 07:16 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-09-25 00:27 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-07-18 07:16:29 UTC 
This was was cloned from bug 16005 as part of operation convergence.
Originally filed: 2012-02-16 19:52:00 +0000

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 #0   contributor@whatwg.org                          2012-02-16 19:52:28 +0000 
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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.

Posted from: 69.141.209.55
User agent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.0; U; Edition Next; en) Presto/2.10.255 Version/12.00
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 #1   Silvia Pfeiffer                                 2012-02-16 21:18:37 +0000 
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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.
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