8187 2009-11-04 19:00:46 +0000 Section 4.8.7 on video makes no reference to audio description 2011-03-08 12:09:28 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified All All VERIFIED FIXED a11y, a11ytf, media, NE P3 normal LC 1 kelly.ford ian ian mike philipj public-html-a11y public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking silviapfeiffer1 w3c public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 29317 0 kelly.ford 2009-11-04 19:00:46 +0000 Section 4.8.7 on the video element makes a couple references to accessibility. However neither of these references talk at all about audio description, a key component of making video contnet accessible to people who are blind. Specific references where audio description should be referenced include: In particular, this content is not intended to address accessibility concerns. To make video content accessible to the blind, deaf, and those with other physical or cognitive disabilities, authors are expected to provide alternative media streams and/or to embed accessibility aids (such as caption or subtitle tracks) into their media streams. User agents should provide controls to enable or disable the display of closed captions associated with the video stream, though such features should, again, not interfere with the page's normal rendering. 30169 1 silviapfeiffer1 2009-12-16 12:42:14 +0000 (In reply to comment #0) > User agents should provide controls to enable or disable the display of closed > captions associated with the video stream, though such features should, again, > not interfere with the page's normal rendering. > A draft suggestion to include audio descriptions that were created textually and make them be read out by the screenreader has been implemented in javascript at http://www.annodex.net/~silvia/itext/elephant_no_skin_v2.html . This is in sync with the way in which we can solve captions and subtitles. The specification proposal for this is at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Accessibility/HTML5_captions_v2. 30409 2 ian 2010-01-05 00:26:22 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Accepted Change Description: see diff given below Rationale: I've added mentions of audio descriptions to the two places listed, though frankly I'm a little wary of going down this road. There are almost an unlimited number of ways that media content can be made more accessible, and I don't think that mentioning every one each time is necessary to get the point across. 30410 3 contributor 2010-01-05 00:27:20 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r4460. Check-in comment: Mention audio descriptions explicitly. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4459&to=4460 31451 4 cooper 2010-02-04 16:38:09 +0000 HTML Accessibility Task force has decided not to track this. 31767 5 cooper 2010-02-11 17:18:02 +0000 The HTML Accessibility Task Force intends to track these issues, per the proposal at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2010Jan/0245.html. 46532 6 w3c 2011-03-08 12:09:28 +0000 Section 4.8.6 on video now mentions audio description tracks.