Re: Is longdesc a good solution? (was: Acessibility of <audio> and <video>)

On Sep 9, 2008, at 23:16, Matt Morgan-May wrote:

> HTML5 should have support for secondary audio tracks in any event.
> Multilingual programming is another viable use case.

However, modeling the selection mechanism for multilingual programming  
is much more difficult than modeling the selection mechanism for audio  
description, so the problems of conflating captioning and subtitling  
apply here as well (with the twist that additional audio tracks take  
more bandwidth, so it is less likely for additional audio tracks to  
get muxed into the same stream).

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Henri Sivonen
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Received on Wednesday, 10 September 2008 07:49:51 UTC