Re: a11y TF CfC on resolution to support "Media Text Associations" change proposal for HTML issue 9 from Silvia Pfeiffer on 2010-04-07 (public-html-a11y@w3.org from April 2010)

From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 11:49:33 +1000
To: Frank Olivier <franko@microsoft.com>
Cc: Geoff Freed <geoff_freed@wgbh.org>, Eric Carlson <eric.carlson@apple.com>, Sean Hayes <Sean.Hayes@microsoft.com>, "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>, "public-html-a11y@w3.org" <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Message-ID: <y2q2c0e02831004061849seda30f1ara19f75588065c319@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 2:12 AM, Frank Olivier <franko@microsoft.com> wrote:
> I think it would be sufficient to state in the spec that controls and
> captions should not cover/interfere with the functioning of the other; exact
> details are tbd by the user agent.

Yeah, under the given circumstances, I think I have to agree.

It seems we have to rely both on Web developers and on Web Browser
vendors to do the right thing, and only make them aware of the
requirement.

Cheers,
Silvia.

Received on Wednesday, 7 April 2010 01:50:26 UTC