- From: Leonard R. Kasday <kasday@acm.org>
- Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 15:55:14 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org
Al Gilman wrote: >So I see application for the text-equiv techniques on both the >author and user side, and I see the author scenario encompassing >both automatic suggestions and manual judgement and rewording. LRK:: Well, logically I have to agree with that, but, to reveal a personal bias here, are there any cases where the automatic text would be as good as text the author wrote him or herself, aside from - copying text link to a ALT text for image or image map area with same URL - and visa versa of the above - all-text image read by OCR (tho even there an error could produce a real knee slapper) I'm worried that authors would get into habit of using the automatically generated text in cases where it's inferior to what they could easily do themselves. Len ------- Leonard R. Kasday Institute on Disabilities/UAP at Temple University, Philadelphia PA email: kasday@acm.org telephone: (215} 204 2247
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