BBC News seems to have started using video footage within its online news
stories quite heavily (eg see
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7832309.stm which has both a
full-width and half-width version).

My question really is whether there are any plans to incorporate captioning
or subtitling (there's a subtle distinction between the two, see
http://screenfont.ca/learn/ although the terms seems to get used
interchangeably quite a lot). I've found myself wanting captions/subtitles
quite a bit: for instance on the quiet coach of a train, when I don't have
headphones with me.

I understand that the technicalities of how to do video captioning well are
complicated and contentious (see
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/thisishowthewebgetsregulated/) but with
Flash video you can at least have a stab at it.

Frankie

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Frankie Roberto
Experience Designer, Rattle
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