- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 12:05:07 +1000
- To: "E.J. Zufelt" <everett@zufelt.ca>
- Cc: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, David Singer <singer@apple.com>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>, Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org>
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:03 PM, E.J. Zufelt <everett@zufelt.ca> wrote: > On 2011-05-11, at 8:26 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > > Is that really the case? IIUC, neither aria-label nor alt are > conforming attributes on media elements and screen readers ignore > them. A test with ChromeVox confirms this, though I cannot test any > other screenreader on my mac. > > I did a simple test of this: > <video controls aria-label="My video player"> > </video> > Using VoiceOver on SL and Safari 5 the label wasn't read. > Using NVDA 2010.1 on FF 3.6 the label was read when tabbing to the player > controls > Using JAWS 11 in Firefox 3.6 the label was read instead of the player > controls, as AFAIK JAWS 11 doesn't support rendering the controls in the > virtual buffer. Hi Everett, Thanks heaps for this test! Can you do me a favor and run another test with the @alt attribute instead of @aria-label? Thanks, Silvia.
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