- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 20:37:36 +0200
- To: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Cc: John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>, David Singer <singer@apple.com>, Chaals McCathieNevile <w3b@chaals.com>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Silvia Pfeiffer, Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:58:23 +0200: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: >> Silvia Pfeiffer, Tue, 10 Jul 2012 09:39:49 +0200: >> >>> I've tried to argue this line of thought before, too. >>> >>> I've come to the conclusion that a transcript is indeed one type of >>> long description >> >> +1 > > ... but not every long description is a transcript! :-) −1 (Just kidding.) [ snip ] > Sometimes. But sometimes people consume the transcript together with > the video. In particular this is the case for interactive transcripts. > I wouldn't want to limit our use of transcripts to those without video > - often times when you read the transcript, you also like to watch > parts of the video at the same time. If it is interactive, then the transcript also probably contain a button with which to hide the descriptions of visual 'events'. ;-) -- LH Silli
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