- From: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:58:49 -0700
- To: John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>
- Cc: 'Silvia Pfeiffer' <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>, janina@rednote.net, "'xn--mlform-iua@målform.no'" <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>, 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 Mar 20, 2012, at 23:18 , John Foliot wrote: > Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: >> >> Just to make this clear: I have listened to blind users. I am well >> aware of the need to describe the poster and I have made a suggestion >> for how to do this with existing markup. I have then spoken again to >> more technically-involved blind users that have agreed - no, more so: >> suggested - that @aria-label is a sufficient for description of a >> video poster. > > It isn't, and here's why: > > 1) The <video> element, when containing both a media asset and an > image, now has 2 objects that require a longer textual description. OK, there is the problem, it doesn't. It has one object, the video; you are entrenched in a confused position caused by the unfortunate choice of the word 'poster'. Everything else you say is founded on this misapprehension. David Singer Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
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