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Section affected: media sections http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/video.html Problem: No support for timed text file The current audio and video elements do not provide a standard means to associate timed text resources through declarative markup. This means that in particular solutions to captions and subtitles need to be created manually through JavaScript, causing the implementation of many non-interoperable caption implementations. Suggested way to solve problem: The media subgroup of the HTML5 Accessibility Task Force has worked on the following proposal: http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/Media_TextAssociations This proposal is the result of several discussions there. It is not yet a recommendation of the task force, but in a good enough state to be introduced into the HTML WG. This proposal introduces declarative markup to reference external associated and time-synchronous text resources with media elements. It introduces in particular a <track> and a <trackgroup> element into HTML5 media elements to create a standard means to include such text resources. It has been defined in such a way as to be extensible in the future for external synchronised audio and video resources too. Also relates to: * Issue-9 (http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/9) * Bug 5758: Insufficient accessibility fallback for <audio> or <video> (http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=5758)
The specification at http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/video.html#the-track-element has a largely acceptable proposal to introduce the association of external time-synchronized text resources with media elements. Introducing that into http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/ would be a big step towards solving this bug.
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