- From: Anne Pemberton <apembert@crosslink.net>
- Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 12:39:12 -0400
- To: Marja-Riitta Koivunen <marja@w3.org>, Greg Gay <g.gay@utoronto.ca>, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
At 10:37 AM 5/10/2000 -0400, Marja-Riitta Koivunen wrote: >Do you know if there are any guidelines to do a visual alternative for text? Marja, If there are such guidelines, other than in book/magazine/newspaper publishing, I'm not aware of them. Textbooks, early reading books and many hardbound books for any age seem to follow guidelines that dictate the amount of text and/or visuals per page. Magazines and newspapers seem to follow guidelines, perhaps ones common in their field/for a similar audience. Encyclopedia are typically well illustrated, and are most hard-bound dictionaries include drawings for words that are specific, such as a type of animal or object. Publication guidelines probably do not address "cogntive disabilities" as such, but tend to include these folks in their attempt to reach their widest audience. Of course, television has visuals for almost everything they broadcast no matter how abstract. Anne Anne L. Pemberton http://www.pen.k12.va.us/Pav/Academy1 http://www.erols.com/stevepem/Homeschooling apembert@crosslink.net Enabling Support Foundation http://www.enabling.org
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