Re: Text and auditory equivalents

Al Gilman wrote:
> 
> At 05:33 PM 11/23/99 -0500, Ian Jacobs wrote:
> >From Eric Hansen [1] w.r.t. Checkpoint 1.3 of WCAG:
> >
> >> Incidentally, I think that a Web content developer that provides the text
> >> content for producing auditory descriptions on the fly should not be
> >> required to provide the prerecorded auditory descriptions. This needs to be
> >> made explicit in WCAG.
> >
> >I agree.
> >
> 
> Are you saying that the "until user agents" clause has been met, or that
> the interim requirement should not have been laid on authors in the first
> place?

I don't think WCAG is way off, only that a slight clarification might
be useful:

1) Today, provide text equivalent and auditory description for visual
track
   of a multimedia presentation.

2) When most UAs can generate speech on the fly from text, the text
equivalent
   is necessary and sufficient.

- Ian


 
> Al
> 
> > - Ian
> >
> >[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/1999OctDec/0337.html
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> >

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Received on Tuesday, 23 November 1999 21:57:13 UTC