Subtitles are in the realm of not many people doing interesting things with them, which is a pity as they are such a creative medium. Recently I rolled my own

Subtitles are in the realm of not many people doing interesting things with them, which is a pity as they are such a creative medium. Recently I rolled my own code to play WebVTT to an audio (think video without the pictures) track. I had assumed there would be off the shelf libraries that would do this for me. Oh how wrong I was! I took it a bit further than white text in a black box at the foot of the screen. Not having pictures kind of made it that way. So I decided I needed cartoon grade speech bubbles, with the speech bubble coming from the left for one voice and the other side of the screen for the other voice, again finding myself in the realms of no ready made examples to do this. The speech bubbles had to scale to fit the content with them being suitably rounded, a la cartoon style. I found an SVG solution to my problem. The WebVTT format and variants have all kinds of goodies in them to position speech and do things in time, as per karaoke. I think one reason I found myself in the world of rare code was that we assume anything to do with accessibility is for disabled people and therefore has to be boring and done with no creativity whatsoever.