Re: CP, ISSUE-30: Link longdesc to role of img [Was: hypothetical question on longdesc]

Except for when your b) assertion is NOT a frame from the video, but a different, author chosen and supplied image, referenced via @poster. Yes, a longer text description is required for the media (as well), but users are asking for both, and we should be able to provide both. This is not an aria-label, this is a rich textual description of both visual assets.

JF

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Subject: Re: CP, ISSUE-30: Link longdesc to role of img [Was: hypothetical  question on longdesc] 
From: David Singer <singer@apple.com> 
To: John Foliot <john@foliot.ca> 
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On Mar 20, 2012, at 17:04 , John Foliot wrote:

> With all due respect David, that is not what a number of blind users have told me: they want to know both, and they also recognize that the image, while related to the video, may very well require its own textual description.
> 
> I am somewhat frustrated when sighted engineers keep asserting what non-sighted users need and want: have you bothered to ask *them*?

I am not saying that they don't need the information.  Of course they need the information.  

I am saying (a) that providing the 2-bits of the poster information without the kilobytes of video information has the wrong priorities and (b) we're confused if we think a still image of a stopped video is something distinct from the video.


David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.