- From: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:16:47 -0700
- To: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Cc: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
On Mar 30, 2012, at 14:52 , Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to see a (civilized) discussion of a core question that > relates to the issues 194 and 203 [2] for video. > > [1] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/194 > [2] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/203 > > We keep talking about "long text descriptions for videos" and > "transcripts" as separate things. There is an implied assumption that > we need two different solutions for these, which I would like to > challenge. Ah. I think that a) they are semantically different; if I am looking for the transcript specifically, a long textual description may not meet the need, and so they should be semantically distinct b) authors are unlikely to provide both, however c) the transcript/description should be part of the 'normal DOM' d) the relationship should be discoverable by anyone, not just accessibility tools e) they should use a common mechanism to link the media to its transcript/description etc. David Singer Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
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