- From: Remco <remco47@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:41:13 +0200
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Henri Sivonen<hsivonen at iki.fi> wrote: > On Aug 14, 2009, at 16:06, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > >> There is only one thing I can think about that an "alt" attribute >> could provide that nothing else does: as a blind user tabs onto a >> video element, the "alt" attribute's content could be read out and >> briefly describe what is visible in the poster image - or >> alternatively give a brief summary of the video. This is useful for >> all those cases where no surrounding text is given for whatever >> reason. Where a surrounding text is given, such as the video title and >> description, such text is likely not necessary. > > > I believe aria-label addresses this. Yes, I think that covers it. This also covers the most important, but apparently always ignored case: authors who don't have time for accessibility. A significant portion of web authors will not provide subtitles for every published video. Nor will they provide links to a transcript. Even if they care about accessibility, it's just not economically viable to do it. The best you can hope for is a sentence or two explaining what the video does. This also covers other non-text elements: <iframe>, <embed>, <object>. The only thing left is ARIA's integration with HTML. Have you had success with your draft? http://hsivonen.iki.fi/aria-html5/ I see you only had one reply to your first announcement. Will the remaining ARIA attributes be an explicit part of HTML? Will the "aria-" prefix be removed? Remco
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