Michael MD wrote:
Do any screen readers support some kind of metadata or semantic markup that could be used to embed such content in the page?
Such stuff 'exists' only ethereally. In their wisdom, screen reader developers have by and wide chosen not to bother implementing any of the manifold techniques for distinguishing audio from video in web formats.
Standards-aware designers are, somewhat righteously, resentful of this lack of attention that we could well use, but the reasoning behind these make sense: hardly anyone uses these functions, and as far as they probably see it, the developers' priorities lie in making the vast majority of sites (designed with no great concern for the visually-impaired) work as best they can.
The tragedy is that normally designers can encourage the development community by carefully putting in place the hooks for future implementation of such features - but in the case of visibility:hidden, this would mean wrecking our design in the present.
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