- From: Steve Vosloo <stevenvosloo@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 12:48:25 +0200
- To: "WAI IG" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
I have a question that relates to Priority 1 Checkpoint 1.3: "1.3. Until user agents can automatically read aloud the text equivalent of a visual track provide an auditory description of the important information of the visual track of a multimedia presentation." Our client has a whole bunch of Flash 5 movies on their site. I'm suggesting to them to provide a detailed text description of each movie. This is a temporary measure with the ultimate goal of making all their movies accessible in Flash 6. Is this checkpoint saying that the text description must be provided as an audio file too? Surely screen readers will simply read the text and thereby provide the audio description? The text is not necessarily meant to be synchronised, e.g. a description could be "Animation of planets orbiting around the sun." Is there any way around this issue? Is a Flash movie which contains quizzes regarded as a multimedia presentation? Thanks Steve Steve Vosloo Division Manager Usability Junction Tel: + 27 (0) 21 409 7961 Fax: + 27 (0) 21 409 7050 Cell: + 27 (0) 83 463 0012 Web: www.usabilityjunction.com
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