[whatwg] Accessibility and the Apple Proposal for Timed Media Elements

Eric Carlson eric.carlson at apple.com
Thu Apr 5 05:37:06 PDT 2007


Benjamin -

On Apr 4, 2007, at 11:44 PM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:

> Re: http://webkit.org/specs/HTML_Timed_Media_Elements.html
>
> There are three things I'd hope to see from a <video> element:
>
> 1) Ease of use compared to <object> (A common API contributes to this,
> and v2 might approach it with a default UI. Lack of agreement on a
> baseline format is a major problem here.)
>
> 2) Experiments in hyperfilm.
>
> 3) Better accessibility features than are provided by the current
> <object> or <embed> + plugin architecture.
>
   We are actively discussing accessibility features internally, and  
should have something to propose to this group shortly.

eric


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