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RE: multipart, atompub, and a11y
draft-gregorio-atompub-multipart-00 doesn't deal with multipart content; it is a way of
using multipart/alternative to combine a POST and a PUT of
related resources into a single POST.
- Brian
Should I be thinking about the
a11y of atompub? A little red flag is up for me because of the
discussion about
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gregorio-atompub-multipart-00 Earlier, on the
list, I asked about if it would make sense to package alternative media using
the MIME type multipart/alternative, e.g. both visual and aural
representations to assist those who are deaf or blind respectively but got
back these responses:
- From Aristotle Pagaltzis: multipart/*
is forbidden as an Atom payload so you won’t find any such feeds.
- From Ernest Prabhakar: As mentioned,
Atom doesn't support multiparty. It does support multiple enclosures,
though. Are there any HTML conventions we could perhaps adopt to identify
accessible alternatives?
- From Brian Smith: My guess is that
multipart/alternative content would make things *less* accessible today, not
more accessible. My feed reader won't even display entries that have
multipart/alternative content and no tools (I know of) will help users
author entries as multipart/alternate
So I wasn't going to think about mutipart any more and
focus on file types like SMIL that have the alternative content embedded.
But maybe I still need to think about multipart. What do you
think?
Pete Brunet
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