- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 21:57:32 -0500
- To: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- CC: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Al Gilman wrote: > > 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? I don't think WCAG is way off, only that a slight clarification might be useful: 1) Today, provide text equivalent and auditory description for visual track of a multimedia presentation. 2) When most UAs can generate speech on the fly from text, the text equivalent is necessary and sufficient. - Ian > Al > > > - Ian > > > >[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/1999OctDec/0337.html > >-- > >Ian Jacobs (jacobs@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs > >Tel/Fax: +1 212 684-1814 > >Cell: +1 917 450-8783 > > -- Ian Jacobs (jacobs@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs Tel/Fax: +1 212 684-1814 Cell: +1 917 450-8783
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