- From: Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:15:24 -0800
- To: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Cc: David Singer <singer@apple.com>, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>, John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>, "public-html-a11y@w3.org" <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Seconded. Transcriptions are about capturing the content in text; an gosh could we use that for img too. I could easily reuse alt, longdesc an transcript on the same image and have three very different blocks. -Charles On Feb 14, 2012, at 4:34 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, this is why I wanted the attribute to be called @transcription > rather than @transcript, because it should contain everything a user > needs to read in order to get the same "experience" that a user gets > who watches the film. So to me transcript = captions + descriptions > (roughly). > > Silvia. > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:24 AM, David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote: >> Does seem that a *description* of a video and a *transcript* are quite distinct. >> >> In this video, a transcript might end: >> >> >> heedi hoo! heedie hoo! >> >> Do-NUT! >> >> a description might be more…informative. >> >> >> David Singer >> Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc. >> >> >
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