- From: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:14:36 -0700
- To: John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>
- Cc: silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com, janina@rednote.net, xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no, rubys@intertwingly.net, laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com, mjs@apple.com, paul.cotton@microsoft.com, public-html-a11y@w3.org, public-html@w3.org
On Mar 20, 2012, at 17:04 , John Foliot wrote: > With all due respect David, that is not what a number of blind users have told me: they want to know both, and they also recognize that the image, while related to the video, may very well require its own textual description. > > I am somewhat frustrated when sighted engineers keep asserting what non-sighted users need and want: have you bothered to ask *them*? I am not saying that they don't need the information. Of course they need the information. I am saying (a) that providing the 2-bits of the poster information without the kilobytes of video information has the wrong priorities and (b) we're confused if we think a still image of a stopped video is something distinct from the video. David Singer Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
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