- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 07:55:58 +0000 (GMT)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> given that if someone clicks on a 'listen' radio link, they expect > radio to play. > the possible options are:in a frame, a pop-up, pop-under or an option > to open in a new window I expect the radio to play as sound, not in a visual concept, like a window. As it is a separate channel of information, for primarily sighted users, that seems perfectly reasonable behaviour to me. You have to resolve the problem of interaction with embed type elements in any case other than the same window synchronous case, which you omitted, presumably because the radio channel was for background noise, not the primary content. I'd therefore say the correct answer is "none of the above". > Frames are not great because they impinge on the rights of the > originating station(unless...). In many cases, the only options that wouldn't be considered (regardless of the true legal position) and infringement, when using internet radio channels would be a link to the home page opened synchronously, or in a window, at least as large as the original, and on top of it. In a lot of cases, linking to the audio channel without the immediately containing HTML page, would be considered a serious infringement. These are consequences of the audio being a vehicle to attract people to the visual media carrying advertising content. I would suggest that in almost every case, you ought to negotiate specific permissions to link to audio content. That permission might be conditional on steps being taken to make your site unattractive to people with spending power (somewhat like talking books for the blind use a non-standard tape format). The original web philosophy would have been that audio content was as much a primary resource as HTML content and therefore a legitimate target for a link from anywhere (provided there was no misrepresentation, but commercialisation means that most audio content is only intended to be accessed in the context of a particular site. (There are some interesting questions about digital rights management, privacy, access control, etc., lurking here.)
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