Multimedia Expands Accessibility Options
In the context of Web design, we use the term multimedia to refer to audio and/or video content that is integrated with the static or animated text and graphic elements of a Web site. This is a fairly standard definition. Aiming for maximum accessibility, however, may also mean thinking about multimedia in a slightly different way than you’re used to. It may mean broadening your definition of multimedia to include, for example, the synthetic speech that screen readers and talking browsers generate. It may mean combining media in new ways to meet the needs of a diverse user population. Accessibility isn’t just about using text (either onscreen or off) as an “equivalent alternative” to graphics that are ...
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