- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:20:23 +0200
- To: W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
At 22:16 9/09/2008, Matt Morgan-May wrote: >On 9/9/08 2:36 AM, "Henri Sivonen" <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote: > > (...) Would this > > <video src=movie.ogg>Please upgrade to a browser that supports HTML5 > > video.</video><p><a href=transcript.html>Annotated transcript</a></p> > > be a "hack"? > >Yes, I'd say that's definitely a hack. (I also think that returning to the >day of telling users their browser isn't good enough is a pretty big step >backward, especially when they could instead embed another object 99% of >them already have. But that's not an accessibility issue.) > > > Is a semantic association between the <video> element and the > > transcript necessary if the link is very near the video in the > > document reading order? > >Yes. What if there are 2 or more videos within the document? > >We're beyond telling screen readers to scrape around for data. That's what >they're reduced to doing when the format in question doesn't provide them >with the kind of linkage they're looking for--it's a repair technique. (see >also: D-links). +1 for relations that can be programmatically determined instead of band aid. WAI-ARIA should not lead other specifications to make a backwards step with regard to programmatic associations; quite the obverse. Best regards, Christophe -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Dept. of Electrical Engineering - SCD Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 bus 2442 B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 http://www.docarch.be/ --- Please don't invite me to LinkedIn, Facebook, Quechup or other "social networks". You may have agreed to their "privacy policy", but I haven't. Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
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