At 11:22 +1000 10/08/09, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
I'd be curious to hear what those problems and provisions are for <video> and <audio>.
I'm just referring to the rather extensive disciussion of 'alt' for images, and the concern some have with attributes that 'most' people don't see.
I do agree that we need to think about both timed-media alternatives and accessibility provisions (captions, audio description of video, etc.) and untimed-media accessibility provisions (alternative text, titles, summaries, links to transcripts etc.). I'm just not sure what the best tools are, etc.
Even though I'm a strong supporter of solving the subtitles/captions/i18n/sign language/audio annotation a11y issues of <video> and <audio>, I still believe that "alt" may have a use similar to what it is used for with images.
I agree there is a need, I'm just not sure how best to satisfy it. Discussion is good, but let's start with the problems and opportunities, then look at existing structures (such as ARIA) or parallels (such as alt), and see how well we can do.
-- David Singer Multimedia Standards, Apple Inc.
