- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:22:05 +1000
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:22 AM, David Singer<singer at apple.com> wrote: > At 1:12 ?+0200 10/08/09, Remco wrote: >> >> Shouldn't <video>s and <audio>s (and maybe <object>s too?) also have >> an alt attribute? A quick Google search tells me this has not been >> discussed before. > > Your search was too quick...we are discussing accessibility provisions for > video and audio in general. ?Have a look under that. > > I think alt has been shown to have problems as well as provisions...perhaps > we can find a better way? Dave, I'd be curious to hear what those problems and provisions are for <video> and <audio>. Even though I'm a strong supporter of solving the subtitles/captions/i18n/sign language/audio annotation a11y issues of <video> and <audio>, I still believe that "alt" may have a use similar to what it is used for with images. E.g. when you tab onto a <video> element, the "alt" tag could give a very brief summary as to what the video is about, e.g. "Elephant Dreams video". It would be much shorter and not time-aligned. But I am curious in people's opinions about this. Cheers, Silvia.
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