RE: Is longdesc a good solution? (was: Acessibility of <audio> and <video>)

Not necessarily. The <object> fallback content is often used as "You need to
get the plugin" type of content, which is not a replacement for the content
itself.

J.Ja

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-html-request@w3.org [mailto:public-html-request@w3.org] On
> Behalf Of Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd)
> Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 2:08 PM
> To: David Poehlman
> Cc: Leif Halvard Silli; Henri Sivonen; Matt Morgan-May; HTML WG; W3C
> WAI-XTECH
> Subject: Re: Is longdesc a good solution? (was: Acessibility of <audio>
> and <video>)
> 
> 
> Isn't "long replacement" exactly what
> fallback content is in <object> ?
> 
> ** Phil.
> --------
> David Poehlman wrote:
> > I was trying to say that @longdesc should contain an indepth
> description and
> > not be used as replacement.  We don't have anything for long
> replacement
> > that I know of.