Re: ISSUE-194: full-transcript - Chairs Solicit Alternate Proposals or Counter-Proposals

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net> wrote:
> On 03/14/2012 11:04 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Sam Ruby<rubys@intertwingly.net>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 03/14/2012 08:27 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In my mind, it is possible that the HTML WG decides that there is
>>>> sufficient need for a general mechanism to add off-page textual
>>>> representations to certain complex elements to HTML5, elements such as
>>>> canvas, img, video, audio, table, or figure. If such a general
>>>> mechanism were added - which could be called @longdesc or @href or
>>>> @transcript - such a mechanism would fulfill the needs of this issue.
>>>
>>>
>>> Can you cite any existing proposal that, if adopted, would address this
>>> need?
>>
>>
>> The need for a generic attribute to provide linked lengthy text
>> representations for complex elements has been emerging.
>
>
> Perhaps it could be something that html.next addresses.
>
>
>> There isn't currently a proposal for such an attribute. One reason is
>> that we've mainly looked at solving these problems with each element
>> individually and haven't really abstracted this as a common problem
>> yet. Another reason is that @longdesc could be expanded for such other
>> elements, but right now it's not even conformant. Basically, we've not
>> had this discussion yet. This is why I am asking for more time on this
>> issue for<video>.
>
>
> If you have something you wish to propose, please do so.  I'll check with my
> co-chairs, but my position is that I will not support deferring something
> based on the possibility that something that nobody is actively working on
> might actually happen.


A @aria-describedAt attribute is under discussion. Are you saying that
unless we make a concrete proposal for such an attribute, we may be
better off moving this requirement to html.next?

Cheers,
Silvia.

Received on Thursday, 15 March 2012 11:32:36 UTC