- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:13:47 -0500
- To: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Cc: html-a11y@w3.org, public-html@w3.org
Hi Silvia, If <video poster> provided no content, <video poster> would not exist. What this all boils down to is the ability to access content. Philip's prevailing change proposal stated "we provide the possibility of indicating an image which is more indicative of the content". [1] HTML5 should have a mechanism to provide that indication to people with disabilities. Currently it does not. John offered the group a proposal regarding how HTML could natively offer a mechanism to equitably obtain the same content currently in <video poster> to people with disabilities but it was rejected. I hope that everyone in the HTML Working Group comprehends the big picture here. Increasingly HTML5 is relying on ARIA to provide for HTML5's accessibility failings. As Everett Zufelt mentioned a while back on the HTML5 Doctor, "The longer the broader development community, such as the HTMLWG, ignores accessibility, or thinks that others like the PFWG / WAI will take care of it for them, the longer we will need technologies like ARIA to fill in the blanks." [2] >> Evidence? Entire Foreign film festivals moved onto on-line delivery may >> disprove that assertion quickly... > > That would be, say 100 films out of millions published on the > Internet? That's still a small problem. Numbers alone must not be the driving factor for technology decisions. The 80/20 rule does not apply. What Al Gilman said a few years ago is still true today. [3] Best Regards, Laura [1] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/index.php?title=ChangeProposals/NoPosterAlt&oldid=9214 [2] http://html5doctor.com/html5-simplequiz-4-figures-captions-and-alt-text/#comment-11965 [3] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/InstateLongdesc/8020 -- Laura L. Carlson
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