- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 04:12:37 +0100
- To: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- CC: "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>, public-html@w3.org, wai-xtech@w3.org
Lachlan Hunt wrote: > * Providing an ordinary link to the description alongside the video > pro: already possible and easy to do. > pro: makes it available to anyone who wants it, not just those with > assistive technology that exposes it. > con: ? con: "alongside" is too vague. Are we talking about proximity in the markup, and if so do we need to define this proximity? Do they need to be immediately adjacent? Or just within the same parent container? Or in separate block level elements, but both in turn wrapped in another block level container or a certain type, or...? con: the relationship between the video and the link is not explicit, and just relies on heuristics (which would need to evaluate the link based on whatever principle of proximity was defined in the previous "con") con: even if proximity was defined, this would create some "special" grammatical or syntactical rule for HTML: "if a video element is present, the next link element alongside it must be assumed to be a link to an alternative for the video...unless the parent container is closed, or unless...etc etc (not a trick question: how could this be expressed in something like a DTD or schema?) P -- Patrick H. Lauke ______________________________________________________________ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com ______________________________________________________________ Co-lead, Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________ Take it to the streets ... join the WaSP Street Team http://streetteam.webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________
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