Re: Video Poster image (was RE: DRAFT analysis of fallback mechanisms for embedded content ACTION-66) from David Singer on 2010-12-08 (public-html-a11y@w3.org from December 2010)

From: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 09:27:52 -0600
To: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Message-Id: <A21B5F8A-89D6-479F-9721-9564C6C98372@apple.com>

I agree, a poster IS the video.  we should not encourage bad practices by pretending/allowing otherwise.

I have three questions about annotating audio/video resources:
     can I 
        (a) provide a short "alt" text? for video 
        (b) provide a long description?  
        (c) link to a transcript?

These seem to be more important, to me, than worrying about whether the poster is semantically different from the video.

David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Wednesday, 8 December 2010 15:28:27 UTC