- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 03:59:36 +0100
- To: public-html@w3.org
Lachlan Hunt wrote: > But let's consider the indexing bot for a moment. Sites like YouTube > seem to provide fairly good search facilities, yet they obviously don't > search the video files themselves. Rather, the video's title, > description and other content on the page fulfils those needs. [...] > What evidence is there to show that such authors will provide fallback > mechanisms, like a textual alternative for video, in HTML? What evidence is there that YouTube users will add a relevant video title, description and other content when uploading a file? As Robert Burns already pointed out, your argument about YouTube actually reinforces the point that textual/indexable alternatives may be necessary. So why not allow for the possibility of explicitly saying that a certain alternative is related directly to a video/audio/etc file? This seems to boil down to: most authors won't bother doing it, or doing it right, so the language shouldn't even allow for the possibility of doing it like that in the first place. Or, to put it into a "give us problems, not solutions" form: an author wants/needs to explicitly specify a structured HTML alternative for a multimedia file (audio/video/etc) that is unambiguously tied to the multimedia file's element (<audio>/<video>/etc)...what solutions are available to them? P -- Patrick H. Lauke ______________________________________________________________ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com ______________________________________________________________ Co-lead, Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________ Take it to the streets ... join the WaSP Street Team http://streetteam.webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________
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