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
_____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete Brunet Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 2:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: multipart, atompub, and a11y 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 IBM Accessibility Architecture and Development 11501 Burnet Road, MS 9022E004, Austin, TX 78758 Voice: (512) 838-4594, Cell: (512) 689-4155 Ionosphere: WS4G
