- From: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 17:21:00 -0700
- To: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Cc: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>, Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org>
On May 11, 2011, at 17:13 , Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: >> >> I think the point is that the poster and the aria-label are both about the video (they are peers) so it might be better to say >> >> <video poster="media/ClockworkOrangetrailer.jpg" controls >> aria-label="A Clockwork Orange movie trailer"> > > > I think that would be wrong. The sighted user doesn't gather from the > placeholder frame that it is a movie trailer. They do when they watch the movie, and the label is on the *video*, not on the poster frame. > I'm barely trying to go there, but .. maybe we should call this > @posteralt I don't think we should have alt for the poster. The poster is there as a substitute for an often-boring (e.g. black) first frame, that's all. It's the video we need to provide alternatives for, for the non-sighted user. > David Singer Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
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