- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 17:15:51 +1000
- To: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
- Cc: David Bolter <dbolter@mozilla.com>, Hubert Figuière <hub@mozilla.com>, Ralph Giles <giles@mozilla.com>
Forwarding a part of the discussion with Mozillians about the transcript element to share the ideas. Cheers, Silvia. On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote: > > Some quick comments inline. > > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Ralph Giles <giles@mozilla.com> wrote: >> >> Some quick thoughts, looking at >> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ISSUE-194/TranscriptElement >> >> - Associating an html media element with its corresponding <transcript> >> element through the transcript=$element_id scheme seems inelegant. I'm >> not aware of a general element-to-element hyperlink of this sort in any >> current spect. What about using a shared attribute value like >> 'mediagroup' in the Media Controller api to tie related elements >> together. This also allows ad-hoc association of multiple transcripts, >> for example in different languages. > > Not a bad idea. This would also provide a backlink from the > <transcript> to the <video>. > > Note that multiple transcripts are already possible, since the > @transcript attribute is a list of IDREFs, not just a single IDREF.
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