- From: Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:06:26 -0400
Michael(tm) Smith wrote: > What would then be the recommended way to provide fallback content > for a video like the following? > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Ara_chloroptera.ogg > That's a 6-second video of a Red-and-green Macaw moving along a > tree branch, with the only sounds being it making a brief > vocalization, and some background sounds. It doesn't seem to lend > itself either to fallback content provided by alternative media > streams or by embedded captions or subtitles. That paragraph sounds like a reasonable alternative -- another argument for the text/html (or text/plain) source as a final alternative. On the other hand, I personally would prefer that sort of caption before deciding whether to watch in the first place, so maybe it could just be handled with an aria-describedby. -jJ
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