Re: Text and auditory equivalents

At 05:33 PM 11/23/99 -0500, Ian Jacobs wrote:
>From Eric Hansen [1] w.r.t. Checkpoint 1.3 of WCAG:
>
>> Incidentally, I think that a Web content developer that provides the text
>> content for producing auditory descriptions on the fly should not be
>> required to provide the prerecorded auditory descriptions. This needs to be
>> made explicit in WCAG.
>
>I agree.
>

Are you saying that the "until user agents" clause has been met, or that
the interim requirement should not have been laid on authors in the first
place?

Al

> - Ian
>
>[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/1999OctDec/0337.html
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Received on Tuesday, 23 November 1999 21:09:32 UTC