- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 15:08:12 +1000
- To: "Patrick H. Lauke" <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- CC: public-html@w3.org, wai-xtech@w3.org
Patrick H. Lauke wrote: > > 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... > con: even if proximity was defined, this would create some "special" > grammatical or syntactical rule for HTML:... I think you're over thinking the solution too much. Does there really need to be an explicit association between the video and the link to it's textual alternative? What problem would such an explicit association really solve? Look at any video on YouTube, for example. There is no explicit association in the markup between the video and its metadata, such as the user who uploaded it, the description, tags, number of times it has been viewed or favourited, etc. Yet the user is still able to determine that they are related to the video. I think an implicit association that the user can determine based on the context is sufficient. I didn't explicitly define "alongside" because it's not necessary. The exact markup used would have to be determined on a case by case basis. But, I guess, an appropriate definition for "alongside" would be something like: somewhere on the page where the user can clearly identify the purpose of the link and its relation to the video based on its context. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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