shom, 3 months ago

#Accessibility friends, I need some guidance.

I tried adding video alt-text on my website [1], but apparently HTML5 <video> doesn't support the alt attribute. @mozilla docs [2] suggests adding text-tracks, so I added a VTT file for closed captioning, that feels hacky.

Is this really the best option or are there better ways? My video doesn't have a voice track, it's better described with alt-text.

[1] https://shom.dev/posts/20240204_filmposter-with-gum-hugo-photo-post-bliss/
[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Accessibility/Multimedia#video_text_tracks

#a11y #html5