- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:22:23 +1000
- To: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 2:06 AM, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net> wrote: > > issue 203 deadline (Friday) > > <JF> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposal/Issue203 > > <MikeSmith> janina: John needs help getting the details written > > rich: So asking for longdesc not describedat? > > jf: A mechanism for short and long text description? > ... Mechanisms we have now in HTML 5 are alt and (hopefully) longdesc -- noting the dependency on Issue-30 > > rich: What does alt do here with images turned off? > ... alt pertains to the video file, not the poster, correct? > > jf: correct > > rich: So alt is rendered with images off? > > jf: Correct > > rich: Doesn't title get rendered with images off? Right now, in all of the browsers that I tested, turning images off has no effect on the rendering of video. There is no way to turn off video rendering in browsers right now. > jf: Quoting spec ... re a11y > > janina: The thing that gets lost in these conversations is that when the video is not running it functions on screen as > a static image No, it doesn't. It has video controls rendered and it is clear to everyone that it is not an image but a video. > rich: Does this CP talk about that? Should it? > ... So, if images are turned off, user has contextual info about that video ... > ... Important that we don't want that rendered with video running > ... Needs to state somehwere that alt goes away when the video is triggered to run > > jf: I need technical/editorial assistance to write this correctly > > rich: Silvia? > > jf: Silvia is adament that a transcript would suffice as a long description > ... believe the community would not accept that No, that is not my position. My position is that we need aria-describedAt and that the link that aria-describedAt links to can present all the different types of long descriptions that are needed. I still have to write a demonstrator of what I mean to make it clearer what I mean. But I do indeed believe that with aria-describedAt and aria-label, aria-labelledby and aria-describedby we have short and long text alternatives covered. I therefore don't subscribe to the need of issue 203. Best Regards, Silvia.
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