- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:27:53 +1100
- To: Sean Hayes <Sean.Hayes@microsoft.com>
- Cc: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
This is a good discussion. On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Sean Hayes <Sean.Hayes@microsoft.com> wrote: > I am not sure that these are necessarily the same thing at all. A transcript is IMO a static untimed merged representation of the information in in the caption and description tracks. A longdesc would probably be something more along the lines of a synopsis or précis. I think we need mechanisms that can handle both of these use cases. A summary is metadata and more than the sighted get if it's hidden in a such a field. It would be a problem if we encouraged such publication approaches. Such text should be recommended to be published as on-page text and referenced with aria-describedby. > I agree that it makes sense to wait and see how the discussion on generic 'off page text' pans out; it might be for example that we end up with both an attribute and an element e.g. @longdesc and <longdesc> (following the precedent of @src and <source>) where the latter admits a richer set of adornments, possibly including some sort of role attribute which can distinguish between a transcript and a synopsis, amongst other uses for off-page text. Do I understand correctly that this is a suggestion to allow several long description documents to be associated to a video? Do you have use cases? Why would video need something like this an no other element? Cheers, Silvia.
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