- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 21:50:22 +0200
- To: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Cc: John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>, 'Chaals McCathieNevile' <w3b@chaals.com>, 'HTML Accessibility Task Force' <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
David Singer, Mon, 09 Jul 2012 08:42:23 -0700: > On Jul 7, 2012, at 1:14 , Leif Halvard Silli wrote: >> Would you say that it is a world of difference between a transcript for >> a movie on one hand, and a long description for a single graphic that >> contains sequential frames from a movie or a comic/cartoon[1][2] on the >> other? > > yes. I don't agree with that 'yes'. But I agree that this is not a transcript: > "This movie concerns the childhood and youth of someone who becomes a > film director. It opens with a scene of his adulthood, receiving a > phone call from his mother in Sicily, informing that someone is dead. > The film then returns to hid childhood, where he is shown fascinated > with the local cinema, and he befriends the projectionist." and so on. > > this is not a transcript. However: That was not the kind of long alternative text that I had mind. Your example takes a "tell, don't show" attitude. If it had taken a "show, don't tell" approach, then it would probably looked more like a transcript. And a "show, don't tell" approach might be the exact correct one to take for a comic/cartoon. -- Leif Halvard Silli
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