- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:36:26 +1100
- To: John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>
- Cc: singer@apple.com, janina@rednote.net, xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no, rubys@intertwingly.net, laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com, mjs@apple.com, paul.cotton@microsoft.com, public-html-a11y@w3.org, public-html@w3.org
In either case, it's no more than an icon representing a label for the video. There is no long textual description required - that time is better spent skipping the video or watching it. Silvia. On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:30 AM, John Foliot <john@foliot.ca> wrote: > 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 > > Sent from my Samsung Epic™ 4G Touch > > > > -------- Original message -------- > 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> > CC: > silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com,janina@rednote.net,xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no,rubys@intertwingly.net,laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com,mjs@apple.com,paul.cotton@microsoft.com,public-html-a11y@w3.org,public-html@w3.org > > > > 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. > >
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