William, The usefulness of illustration with text deserves more than a mere mention, but that is a good start. Anne At 06:59 AM 5/30/01 -0700, William Loughborough wrote: >At 09:32 PM 5/30/01 +1000, Andrew Arch wrote: >>collate comments > > From the "Improve usability for non-disabled visitors" section of >http://members.optushome.com.au/amja/wai/ap-auxben2.html > >"...Text alternatives" > >I would broaden this bullet (or bite it?) to encompass the notion that >"text is not sacred" and that having something akin to illustrative >alternatives to text is of benefit to the millions with mild to severe >learning disorders and the "partially literate". > >We so unthinkingly accept the idea of text being "first among equals" >within the communications media because practically everybody working on >these documents is in a rather advanced state of denial about text's >universality. Just a brief mention of how many more people are reached by >illustrations than pure text? > >-- >Love. > ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE > > Anne Pemberton apembert@erols.com http://www.erols.com/stevepem http://www.geocities.com/apembert45Received on Thursday, 31 May 2001 07:09:21 GMT
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