accessibility – LG WEBOS Audiodescription tag missing kind value using Dash

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On LG TV webos TVs (webos 4.5 and webos 22) Dash manifest has setup of returning Audiodescription as below :












AHkALUgA+AA==

Despite role being specified for AD track as below :

Audio description track returned by the browser on LG is below :

 {
    "id": "2",
    "kind": "",
    "label": "",
    "language": "en",
    "enabled": false
  }

As kind and label are both empty,its impossible to know this is AD track considering position of AD track is not guaranteed. LG uses quite old browser version on their TV.
Chromium 87 on WEBOS 22 and Chromium 53 on WEBOS4.5 I don’t have other version of TVs to test on.

App is playing video natively without any player library. Just HTML5 and would rely on browser on TV.

Any idea why ‘kind’ is not populated ?
Without way to identify Audio description track exists, can’t enable Audio description for accessiblity purposes

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