- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:02:18 +1100
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Cc: David Singer <singer@apple.com>, John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>, janina@rednote.net, 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 Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> wrote: > David Singer, Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:14:36 -0700: >> 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. > > A: Imagine that you made a TV-program guide, where each program was > illustrated with a screenshot taken from the TV-program. > > B: Later one, you made the TV guide interactive, where part of what you > did was that you replaced the <img> elements with <video> elements > which displayed the same screenshots from the TV-programs. [Think > NetFlix or something like that.] > > Why does the images in A need alt text, but not those in B? Chuck your @alt text into @aria-label - it's that easy. It has just turned into an interactive element, so some changes are expected to be required. > Imagine, also, that the screenshot from the Today show or the News, was > not from today or from the news, but simply a photo of today's hosts - > or perhaps displayed well known screenshot from the plane crash > yesterday, that it still the hot topic of today. Or that today's > reality show program was illustrated with a screenshot from last > episode's most epic moment. If the picture is that irrelevant to the content, then you might as well just have a standard label of "news of today with host xxx". Silvia.
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