Bug 160652 – AX: Audio Description tracks are not labeled correctly, causing user confusion

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: Media

[James Craig]

Created attachment 285557 [details]
screen shot of webkit video player, audio menu shows two options: "English" and "English"

Summary:
Audio Description tracks are not labeled correctly, causing user confusion

Steps To Reproduce:
1. Load https://www.apple.com/media/us/iphone-6s/2016/af22bd64-5646-43f6-8b97-6085158f0cd7/tv-spots/shot-by-marc/iphone6s-shot-by-marc-cc-us-20160720_r848-9dwc.mov
2. Open the Audio menu.

Results:
See screen shot. The two tracks are both listed as simply "English."

Expected:
The second one should be "English [AD]" or "English w/ Audio Descriptions'

Notes:
Audio Descriptions are to blind users as captions are to deaf users. There is a media characteristic tag "public.accessibility.describes-video" on this audio track that identifies it as this type.

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/27742208>

[Eric Carlson]

Created attachment 285740 [details]
Proposed patch.

[Build Bot]

Comment on attachment 285740 [details]
Proposed patch.

Attachment 285740 [details] did not pass ios-sim-ews (ios-simulator-wk2):
Output: http://webkit-queues.webkit.org/results/1847400

New failing tests:
media/video-controls-captions-trackmenu-hide-on-click.html
media/video-controls-captions-trackmenu-localized.html
media/video-controls-captions-trackmenu-sorted.html
media/video-controls-captions-trackmenu.html

[Build Bot]

Created attachment 285747 [details]
Archive of layout-test-results from ews125 for ios-simulator-elcapitan-wk2

The attached test failures were seen while running run-webkit-tests on the ios-sim-ews.
Bot: ews125  Port: ios-simulator-elcapitan-wk2  Platform: Mac OS X 10.11.5

[Eric Carlson]

Created attachment 285754 [details]
Proposed patch.

[Antoine Quint]

Comment on attachment 285754 [details]
Proposed patch.

View in context: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=285754&action=review

> Source/WebCore/page/CaptionUserPreferencesMediaAF.cpp:660
> +    return audioDescriptionTrackSuffixText(displayName.toString());

Since having a description track is a special case, I would have expected the if statement above to check whether we have one and return the suffix text in that case and let the default be the general case.

> LayoutTests/http/tests/media/hls/hls-accessiblity-describes-video-menu.html:47
> +                window.setTimeout(runTestsWithVisibleMenu, 100);

Usage of setTimeout is typically a warning to me. What is the 100ms delay for here? Are we waiting on some layout due to some async event being dispatched? Could we use nested rAF calls to determine this has happened?

[James Craig]

<rdar://problem/24705228>

[Eric Carlson]

Created attachment 286369 [details]
Patch for landing.

[WebKit Commit Bot]

Comment on attachment 286369 [details]
Patch for landing.

Clearing flags on attachment: 286369

Committed r204601: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/204601>

[WebKit Commit Bot]

All reviewed patches have been landed.  Closing bug.