Re: Two efforts to kill longdesc from Laura Carlson on 2011-06-04 (public-html-a11y@w3.org from June 2011)

From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 13:15:30 -0500
To: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
Cc: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Message-ID: <BANLkTinyrnNpRQ=ukX=Nqauq-hsCkJZx_A@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Janina,

You wrote:

> The longdesc proposal could not
> meet the user requirements for video and poster, and the markup proposed
> for poster would not accomodate the user requirements behind longdesc.

I have read the past  media minutes and haven't found an answer to why
longdesc could not satisfy video and poster user requirements.

Could you explain what would be needed to make longdesc satisfy video
and poster user requirements?

Thanks.

Best Regards,
Laura
-- 
Laura L. Carlson

Received on Saturday, 4 June 2011 18:15:57 UTC