Re: Accessibility and EME (was RE: Is EME usable regardless of the software/hardware I use ?) from Duncan Bayne on 2013-06-13 (public-restrictedmedia@w3.org from June 2013)

From: Duncan Bayne <dhgbayne@fastmail.fm>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:31:36 -0700
To: public-restrictedmedia@w3.org
Message-Id: <1371090696.23032.140661243295501.75975281@webmail.messagingengine.com>

John,

I'm going to ignore the ad-hominem component of your post, and attempt
to explain my reasoning.

1. the sole purpose of EME is to interop with closed-source proprietary
DRM blobs, a.k.a. CDMs
2. tone of the purposes of a CDM is to prevent media content (e.g.
movies, audio, text) from being accessed by other software (e.g. a
browser plugin that saves a streaming movie to disk)
3. accessibility tools like screen-readers rely entirely upon being able
to access media content and shift it into a format accessible by
disabled users
4. therefore, accessibility of content protected by CDMs will be limited

Please correct me if I'm wrong about any of that.

-- Duncan Bayne 
ph: +61 420817082 | web: http://duncan-bayne.github.com/ | skype:
duncan_bayne

Received on Thursday, 13 June 2013 02:31:57 UTC