- From: E.J. Zufelt <everett@zufelt.ca>
- Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 22:17:15 -0400
- To: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Cc: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, David Singer <singer@apple.com>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>, Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org>
On 2011-05-11, at 10:05 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:03 PM, E.J. Zufelt <everett@zufelt.ca> wrote: >> On 2011-05-11, at 8:26 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: >> >> Is that really the case? IIUC, neither aria-label nor alt are >> conforming attributes on media elements and screen readers ignore >> them. A test with ChromeVox confirms this, though I cannot test any >> other screenreader on my mac. >> >> I did a simple test of this: >> <video controls aria-label="My video player"> >> </video> >> Using VoiceOver on SL and Safari 5 the label wasn't read. >> Using NVDA 2010.1 on FF 3.6 the label was read when tabbing to the player >> controls >> Using JAWS 11 in Firefox 3.6 the label was read instead of the player >> controls, as AFAIK JAWS 11 doesn't support rendering the controls in the >> virtual buffer. > > Hi Everett, > > Thanks heaps for this test! Can you do me a favor and run another test > with the @alt attribute instead of @aria-label? None of the tree AT broswer pairs appears to support alt on the video control. HTH, Everett
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