[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #43178: Rethinking what “captions” means for video

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#43178: Rethinking what “captions” means for video
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 Reporter:  postphotos     |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement    |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal         |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General        |    Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal         |   Keywords:
  Focuses:  accessibility  |
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 '''Because different users will use the word "caption" in different ways,
 it would be helpful to look at reducing this term in WordPress media and
 clarifying all media terms as a whole.'''

 Captions carry a meaning in the video industry that is closely related to
 subtitles. It's recommended that we change how we describe our images,
 videos, and other media used within WordPress.

 ''Note: For architectural reasons, the field data should be left alone,
 but we need a better label for the associated meta. I also talked about
 this a bit in #31177''

 This proposal further explores the messy language in media attachments and
 focuses  on clear description so that all users can understand them,
 including clarifying WordPress' use of video subtitles.

 A proposal to revising these terms is below.

 Images
 1) Wherever images use {{{data-setting="title"}}} - instead of "Title" the
 English label should read "Media Title."

 2) Wherever images use {{{data-setting="caption"}}} - instead of "Caption"
 the English label should read "Image Caption." Because the specific term
 "photo captioning" describes a widely-used industry term, it should be
 clarified here but not removed.

 3) Wherever images use {{{data-setting="description"}}} - instead of
 "Description" the English label should read "Longer Description." This is
 because theme developers do not output this data beyond attachment pages
 and having three ill-described content areas - alt, caption, description -
 is an anti-pattern to describe what these images.

 Videos
 1) Wherever images use {{{data-setting="title"}}} - instead of "Title" the
 English label should read "Media Title."

 2) Wherever video use {{{data-setting="caption"}}} - instead of "Caption"
 the English label should read "Media Description."

 3) Wherever images use {{{data-setting="description"}}} - instead of
 "Description" the English label should read "Longer Description." This is
 because theme developers do not output this data beyond attachment pages
 and having three ill-described content areas - alt, caption, description -
 is an anti-pattern to describe these images.

 By adjusting these terms and exposing utility of the meta values, this
 level of clarity will greatly enhance the ability for all users,
 especially those helping create content for both multi-lingual and Deaf
 audiences, to understand the meta values in managing media work without
 the need to read documentation.

 Goals:
 1. Because videos are reused on separate posts and all subtitled videos
 should contain this as a part of their output, create a meta value (or
 some other object type) that stores associated SRTs per language.

 2. Allow for a better way for all videos that stores the associated SRTs
 to be associated with a language or as another kind of subtitle track -
 i.e. commentary, descriptive text, etc.

 3. Allow videos uploaded at the same time with the same subtitle file name
 (or in a language structure) to be associated with each other. Assume the
 default core language for videos with no LANG code and associate the only
 subtitle as belonging to default core’s. (If there’s only one SRT with no
 lang suffix, it’s probably a caption.)

 If we leave the existing labels as-is, new and old users will both
 continue to put the wrong information in because of the lack of context to
 each field. Whatever fix we decide on, this should also be further
 adjusted in each target language that WordPress core is released in.

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