- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 07:37:08 +1000
- To: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Cc: Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>, "public-html-a11y@w3.org" <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
On 11/05/2011, at 5:06 AM, David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote: > > On May 9, 2011, at 17:51 , Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > >>>> I wonder of course also whether that attribute should be called >>>> @longdesc, though I really don't like that name. @transcription is >>>> much more sensible on audio and video. >>> >>> I would suggest "transcript". >> >> Fine by me. I was concerned about finding something that works both >> for audio and video and for anything that's not just a movie, but also >> other types of content such as home video. >> > > I think a transcript is not the same as a description (long or otherwise), and that it should be possible to link a media elements to its transcript. Fair enough. > (I'm staying out of longdesc and whether it should also be there!) I won't. :) Indeed if we have transcript, we won't need another form of long description IMO. Anything more than 3 mechanisms for short, long and full transcription is overkill for video. I cannot think of a use case that cannot be satisfied with one of these three. Cheers, Silvia.
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