- From: Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 23:20:18 +1000
- To: "Patrick H. Lauke" <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
I'm proposing HTML 5 offers a solution already: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Jul/1096.html On 7/28/07, Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk> wrote: > > Lachlan Hunt wrote: > > > But let's consider the indexing bot for a moment. Sites like YouTube > > seem to provide fairly good search facilities, yet they obviously don't > > search the video files themselves. Rather, the video's title, > > description and other content on the page fulfils those needs. > > [...] > > > What evidence is there to show that such authors will provide fallback > > mechanisms, like a textual alternative for video, in HTML? > > What evidence is there that YouTube users will add a relevant video > title, description and other content when uploading a file? > > As Robert Burns already pointed out, your argument about YouTube > actually reinforces the point that textual/indexable alternatives may be > necessary. So why not allow for the possibility of explicitly saying > that a certain alternative is related directly to a video/audio/etc file? > > This seems to boil down to: most authors won't bother doing it, or doing > it right, so the language shouldn't even allow for the possibility of > doing it like that in the first place. > > Or, to put it into a "give us problems, not solutions" form: an author > wants/needs to explicitly specify a structured HTML alternative for a > multimedia file (audio/video/etc) that is unambiguously tied to the > multimedia file's element (<audio>/<video>/etc)...what solutions are > available to them? > > P > -- > Patrick H. Lauke > ______________________________________________________________ > re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively > [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] > www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk > http://redux.deviantart.com > ______________________________________________________________ > Co-lead, Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force > http://webstandards.org/ > ______________________________________________________________ > Take it to the streets ... join the WaSP Street Team > http://streetteam.webstandards.org/ > ______________________________________________________________ > >
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