- From: Robert Burns <rob@robburns.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:15:13 -0500
- To: Smylers <Smylers@stripey.com>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Jun 27, 2007, at 9:07 AM, Smylers wrote: > > Ben Boyle writes: > >> [Lachlan Hunt writes:] >> >>> In regards to using longdesc for videos, that seems like it would >>> encourage the use of "full multimedia text alternatives". Several >>> accessibility experts, including Joe Clark, don't approve of such >>> things for videos. Instead, they advocate that videos should be >>> made accessibile through the use of things like captions and audio >>> descriptions. >> >> They absolutely should, but alternatives are still useful. >> Particularly for people with limited bandwidth, which you know >> remains >> an issue in Australia ;) > > And also for people browsing with, say, Lynx. Or people who don't > have > an appropriate video-playing plug-in for their browser (perhaps > because > the video is in a proprietory format from a different platform). > > Accessibility for all should consider readers' technical limitations, > not just human disabilities. > > Smylers > However, @longdesc was added to <img> because it doesn't support content inn the element itself. <video> and all of the other embedded content elements do (with the exception of the newly introduced <embed>). So @longdesc is something we should move away from (by moving away from <embed> and <img>) and certainly not something we need to add to the other embedded content elements. However, @alt may be something to consider on these other elements (perhaps, I don't know). \ Take care, Rob
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